ORIL`s Head of Design, Oleh Kravets tells how psychological patterns influence UX design and shares essential UX laws for creating intuitive digital experiences that effectively engage users. If you are interested in a full list of Laws of UX, visit lawsofux.com.

In this video, Adam Bellemare compares and contrasts Event-Driven and Request-Driven Architectures to give you a better idea of the tradeoffs and benefits involved with each. Many developers start in the synchronous request-response (RR) world, using REST and RPC to build inter-service communications. But tight service-to-service coupling, scalability, fan-out sensitivity, and data access issues can still remain.

Many developers are excited about Dev Containers, but until now, people needed to use a managed service like Codespaces or Gitpod to experience that Dev Container magic. DevPod is a new open-source tool that allows users to launch Dev Containers with any infrastructure they have available. DevPod introduces a way to define a development environment that can then be run on any cloud infrastructure or even on a localhost machine using Docker or Kubernetes locally or on the cloud. This talk is all about how you can use DevPod locally or on cloud to run your developer workloads easily.

Abhishek Agrawal, Co-founder and CEO of Material Security, chats with "Powered by Snowflake" host Phoebe He about his company's mission to protect the productivity suite, namely Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Its customer base crosses all industries as well as customers of all sizes. The conversation includes a demo of the platform that shows how to set up the solution and the kind of reports it generates for an organization's security team. It also covers how the solution accounts for organization's who have employees working from home and who use their mobile phones to conduct business communications.