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Upcoming events

April 20, 2023 - Lisbon & remote
ElixirConf EU
ElixirConf is a 2-day hybrid conference, gathering hundreds of developers with a passion for Elixir to learn about, share and inspire the progression of the Elixir ecosystem. Mainmatter will be supporting the conference as a silver sponsor!
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April 20, 2023 - Munich
Rust Munich Meetup
The next Rust meetup for Rust fans in and around Munich is happening on the 20th of April. The meetup is hosted by Mainmatter at our office.
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May 8, 2023 - Magdeburg
Magdeburger Developer Days
Magdeburger Developer Days is a 3-day software engineering conference in Magdeburg. Mainmatter Founder Marco Otte-Witte will talk about Continuous Deployment Workflows. He will present main advantages compared to classical processes, explain the essential components of such a process (especially with regard to testing and automation), and discuss typical challenges and strategies to overcome them.
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May 25, 2023 - Vilnius & remote
DevDays Europe
DevDays Europe is a 2-day software development conference covering the emerging technologies and best practices in the software development industry – regardless of technological platform or language. Mainmatter Founder Marco Otte-Witte will discuss the state of the web development ecosystem for Rust, the challenges that come with adopting it, and share some real-world examples to show what’s possible in his talk "Get Ready to Rustle".
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October 12, 2023 - TBA & online
EuroRust
EuroRust is a 2 day conference for the European Rust community, organized by Mainmatter. We cover all things Rust: from Rust patterns and idioms to systems programming and CLI tooling, servers WASM, and embedded systems.
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Browse our past talks

Misusing Cucumber
Ember Europe Q4 Meetup 2022
Misusing Cucumber
Andrey Mikhaylov explained how to test Ember apps with Cucumber at the Ember Europe Q4 2002 Meetup.
Properly flaky modifiers
Ember Europe Q4 Meetup 2022
Properly flaky modifiers
Florian Pichler showed how to build a snowflake effect with modifiers and Ember components at the last Ember Europe Q4 2022 Meetup.
Properly flaky modifiers
Florian Pichler showed how to build a snowflake effect with modifiers and Ember components at the last Ember Europe Q4 2022 Meetup.
Bottled Ember - Batteries Included Web Framework, tiny tiny living space
EmberFest 2022
Bottled Ember - Batteries Included Web Framework, tiny tiny living space
All Ember addons come with the concept of a “dummy app”. This has been super useful to test our addons and has even been part of the reason why we have been able to support so many different versions of Ember from a single addon using ember-try scenarios. This talk by Chris from EmberFest 2022, gives a bit of detail on how “classic” addons work and proposes an alternative to replacing the idea of the addon's dummy app with a monorepo in V2 addons.
Bottled Ember - Batteries Included Web Framework, tiny tiny living space
All Ember addons come with the concept of a “dummy app”. This has been super useful to test our addons and has even been part of the reason why we have been able to support so many different versions of Ember from a single addon using ember-try scenarios. This talk by Chris from EmberFest 2022, gives a bit of detail on how “classic” addons work and proposes an alternative to replacing the idea of the addon's dummy app with a monorepo in V2 addons.
Easy, Local, & Self-Signed; Certificates for Ember Serve
EmberFest 2022
Easy, Local, & Self-Signed; Certificates for Ember Serve
From enabling secure cookies to working with crypto, there are many reasons why you might want to serve your Ember application over HTTPS locally.
Learn how in this talk by Florian from EmberFest 2022.
Easy, Local, & Self-Signed; Certificates for Ember Serve
From enabling secure cookies to working with crypto, there are many reasons why you might want to serve your Ember application over HTTPS locally.
Learn how in this talk by Florian from EmberFest 2022.
Panel: The Future of Ember
EmberFest 2022
Panel: The Future of Ember
EmberFest 2022 closed with a panel about the future of Ember, moderated by Marco Otte-Witte with panelists Melanie Sumner, Chris Manson, Ed Faulkner, and Chris Krycho. The panel discussed challenges and opportunities, how we market Ember and where it fits in in the wider ecosystem of frontend frameworks.
Panel: The Future of Ember
EmberFest 2022 closed with a panel about the future of Ember, moderated by Marco Otte-Witte with panelists Melanie Sumner, Chris Manson, Ed Faulkner, and Chris Krycho. The panel discussed challenges and opportunities, how we market Ember and where it fits in in the wider ecosystem of frontend frameworks.
Lint your code into the future
EmberConf 2022
Lint your code into the future
Adopting new linting rules in modestly sized apps can often leave you with several linting errors across hundreds of files.
Chris Manson explains how you can reduce the struggle and happily lint large apps all the way to modern Ember at your own pace in his talk from EmberConf 2022.
Lint your code into the future
Adopting new linting rules in modestly sized apps can often leave you with several linting errors across hundreds of files.
Chris Manson explains how you can reduce the struggle and happily lint large apps all the way to modern Ember at your own pace in his talk from EmberConf 2022.
Data validation libraries in Ember
EmberFest 2021
Data validation libraries in Ember
Ember Octane’s tracking system makes it easier to integrate libraries from the wider JavaScript ecosystem in Ember apps. Bartłomiej Dudzik explained how to leverage other packages for validating data than ember-cp-validations or ember-changeset.
Data validation libraries in Ember
Ember Octane’s tracking system makes it easier to integrate libraries from the wider JavaScript ecosystem in Ember apps. Bartłomiej Dudzik explained how to leverage other packages for validating data than ember-cp-validations or ember-changeset.
Making Mira: an Intro to Animating the Web
EmberFest 2021
Making Mira: an Intro to Animating the Web
Mira is a robot created by Pixar artist Alonso Martinez, capable of recreating a great number of emotions and interactions. In his talk, Nick Schot brings Mira to the web while explaining different animation techniques.
Making Mira: an Intro to Animating the Web
Mira is a robot created by Pixar artist Alonso Martinez, capable of recreating a great number of emotions and interactions. In his talk, Nick Schot brings Mira to the web while explaining different animation techniques.
Using Ember to build a universal design system
EmberFest 2021
Using Ember to build a universal design system
With Ember being HTML-First, doors open to new possibilities. Chris Manson explores the opportunity of building a design system with Ember that can also be consumed by apps that are not using JavaScript in his talk.
Using Ember to build a universal design system
With Ember being HTML-First, doors open to new possibilities. Chris Manson explores the opportunity of building a design system with Ember that can also be consumed by apps that are not using JavaScript in his talk.
Handling Images on the Web
EmberConf 2021
Handling Images on the Web
Handling images on the web has evolved from a simple task to a complex topic. Marco Otte-Witte presents options for different scenarios along with challenges and advantages as well as disadvantages of different approaches.
Handling Images on the Web
Handling images on the web has evolved from a simple task to a complex topic. Marco Otte-Witte presents options for different scenarios along with challenges and advantages as well as disadvantages of different approaches.