Pre-Conference Workshops

Two days of focused, hands-on training with the practitioners shaping DDD, microservices, and AI delivery. Direct access to the instructor with your questions and your team's problems.

Workshops run 9am-5pm both days, Monday September 21 and Tuesday September 22, 2026, in Denver, Colorado. Tickets are sold separately from the conference and combine toward group discount tiers. See pricing on the home page.

Essential Domain-Driven Design

Paul Rayner

Domain-driven design has a reputation for being complex, with layers of patterns, acronyms, and conflicting advice. This workshop cuts through the noise and gives you a solid foundation in the ideas, techniques, and skills that make DDD work in real project contexts.

Designing Microservices: Responsibilities, APIs and Collaborations

Chris Richardson

The microservice architecture enables fast flow at scale, but it is far too easy to get service boundaries wrong and create a fragile distributed monolith. In this workshop, you will learn a structured, collaborative process for defining a microservice architecture with clear responsibilities, well-defined APIs, and explicit collaboration patterns.

AI-Assisted Software Architecture & Domain Discovery

Indu Alagarsamy

AI won't simplify a complex system. But it can dramatically accelerate your understanding. Over two full days, learn how to use AI tools as a force multiplier for architectural and domain discovery in complex existing systems.

Build Your Own Coding Agent from Scratch

Matt Wynne & Steven Diamante

You use AI agents every day, but do you know what's actually happening under the hood? Build an agent from scratch, without any frameworks. Watch a basic chatbot evolve into a sophisticated agent with tools, conversation history, and guardrails, then explore evals, deterministic vs non-deterministic capabilities, and a competition between the agents you've built.

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