Having your own toy army has advantages! Come to my talk "Fowl Play" at @devconf.co.za 2026

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Lula joins the DevConf Johannesburg 2026 lineup! 🎊 We're SO excited to have you as an Exhibitor at DevConf Johannesburg 2026! Thank you for supporting our community and helping us create unforgettable connections on May 12! #DevConf2026 #JoziTech

Ever wanted to validate your automation pipelines without waiting for cloud runners? Steve Yonkeu will demonstrate how to simulate GitHub's environment locally, making changes and testing workflows as many times as you want, even on a plane with no Wi-Fi. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026

How fast are spherical rubber ducks in a conference room?

Come to my talk "Fowl Play" at @devconf.co.za 2026 to maybe get hit by one and find out.

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🚀 The countdown is on! #DevConf2026 is coming to Johannesburg & Cape Town. One day. Two cities. Endless possibilities for learning, networking, and growth. Secure your spot today! devconf.co.za

🚀 MASSIVE thanks to Cloud on Demand for supporting DevConf 2026 in BOTH cities! Your dedication to SA's developer community is absolutely amazing! See you at both venues!
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Georgina Armstrong will share the weird realities of building recommender systems for major retailers: customers offended by mathematically true recommendations, odd products dominating feeds for even odder reasons, and code suddenly becoming an ethical flashpoint. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026

Keeping our community hydrated and connected! 💧 Welcome Electrum as Exhibitor and Water Bottle Sponsor at DevConf Cape Town 2026. Thanks for supporting developer wellness and collaboration! #DevConf2026 #CapeTownTech

☁️ Three major cloud outages in 28 days caused hundreds of millions in losses. Schalk Venter examines our relationship with massive cloud structures and will demonstrate how local-first principles can improve reliability while simplifying entire tech stacks. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026

🎤 #DevConf2026 Keynote! Chris Tite takes the stage to explore how leaders and teams can embrace uncertainty and tackle complex problems in an AI-driven world. The challenge isn't just technology, it's how we respond. Don't miss it! www.devconf.co.za ✨

Sponsorship opportunities closing soon! Secure your presence at DevConf 2026, South Africa's largest community-driven developer conference. From exhibition stands to speaking slots, position your brand where it counts.
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Nhlanhla Lucky Nkosi moves beyond chatbots to explore agentic AI in the browser, systems that observe their environment, make decisions, and safely take action using modern Web APIs, even with sketchy internet connections. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026

DevConf ❤ The conference for professional South African software developers. DevConf is the conference in South Africa for professional software developers focusing on the enterprise development challenges and team dynamics.

Once again I'm taking one of those crazy ideas that should probably never see the light of day and through stubbornness, poor financial decisions and the magic of sleep-deprivation turn it into a @devconf.co.za talk, Fowl Play.

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Precious Mamotingoe Lesupi challenges the assumptions behind cybersecurity advice. Learn how to design secure systems for load shedding, low-connectivity regions, shared devices, and high-risk users who face both digital and physical threats. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026 #CyberSecurity

Abed Matini compares local vs. cloud RAG, hybrid retrieval pipelines, and offline-friendly approaches for teams with strict data controls. Learn which patterns avoid hallucinations while staying lightweight and maintainable. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026 #Rag

📣 We're pumped to welcome ADG to DevConf Johannesburg 2026! Thank you for believing in our community and helping us bring developers together! May 12 can't come soon enough!
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What started as a fun programming problem became a journey into parallel computing. Cayden de Wit will demonstrate the power of a homemade Beowulf cluster through live fractal rendering, large-scale Sudoku solving, and hands-on audience demos. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026

In 1966, the Navy used optimal decision theory to find a lost hydrogen bomb in the Mediterranean. Johan van Rooyen will show how those same principles apply to locating bugs in sprawling, poorly understood software systems. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026

Fueling Cape Town's developer community, one cup at a time! ☕ A big thank you to DVT for being a Coffee Sponsor at DevConf Cape Town 2026. Smart people need smart solutions (and great coffee)! #DevConf2026 #CapeTownTech

Jozi and Cape Town! 📓 Old Mutual joins DevConf 2026 as an exhibitor and Notebook Sponsor in both cities. Thank you for helping our developer community capture every brilliant idea! #DevConf2026

Building software with resource-constrained teams means making informed trade-offs. Seale Rapolai will share the strategies for ruthlessly prioritizing, implementing selective automation, and maintaining high velocity without sacrificing long-term stability. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026

Great communities bring people together! We are excited to welcome Entelect to DevConf Johannesburg 2026. Stop by their booth on May 12 and be part of the conversation! 💬 #DevConf2026 #DevConnect

🗺️ Renette Ros will share the blueprint for treating upgrades as a continuous, automated, safe background process instead of expensive manual projects. See how her team composes open source recipes and writes custom ones to handle migrations at enterprise scale. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026

Samuel Femi Taiwo tackles the challenges of digital accessibility across Africa, from limited awareness and training to minimal implementation frameworks. Discover practical approaches that benefit both users and organizations. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026 #A11y

Carike Blignaut-Staden brings transparency to developer workflows through dashboards, CI/CD pipelines, and real-time insights. Come and discover how to surface the impact of your engineering choices on both budgets and the planet. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026

What is the best part of a tech conference?

The talks
The people
The swag
The coffee
(Let's be honest... it's the coffee ☕)
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Fadzayi Moyo identifies the four horsemen undermining AppSec programs: Visibility Gaps, Fragile Toolchains, Culture Wars, and Uncontextualised Risk. Learn how to exorcise each one through contextualised DevSecOps design, intelligent automation, and cultural rewiring. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026

What started as fixing longstanding bugs became an opportunity to reveal assumptions and identify non-obvious user workflows. Zach Smith will be sharing lessons from reimagining a legacy system that now serves 700+ active astronomy researchers. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026

🦆 World domination is expensive, so Dale Nunns is doing it on a budget. Learn signal analysis, hardware hacking, and protocol decoding while assembling a stationary duck squad that actually takes commands. www.devconf.co.za #DevConf2026

Your network is your net worth! 🌟 #DevConf2026 brings together developers from across South Africa for networking, knowledge sharing, and inspiration. Johannesburg or Cape Town - where will we see you?
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