​AI can fix your code. It cannot fix a bad architecture decision.

​Roast My TechStack is a technical community demo session where builders put their architecture, design decisions and constraints on the table for other technical people to examine.

​There is no actual roasting. Just curious questions, technical debate and cheeky energy.

​The goal: make better architecture decisions by learning from other builders.

​How It Works

​Each presenter gets 30 minutes.

​15 min: For presenters walk us through:

• ​What they are building

• ​Their architecture and architecture.md or ADRs

• ​Their constraints

• ​Why they chose their stack

• ​The tradeoffs they made

• ​What they are currently stuck on

​15 min: Q&A section where the audience digs into the architecture:

• ​Why this solution over the alternatives?

• ​What tradeoffs did you make?

• ​What breaks first?

• ​Where are the bottlenecks?

• ​What would you do differently?

​
Presenters Lineup

​Speaker 1: Naimish Kandula

​Naimish upgraded Open Wispr to use Apple's new Core AI Stack for local inference on his MacBook getting him accurate and fast diction, but without subscriptions and completely local processing, with the added benefit of using the Apple neural engine for significantly better battery life.

​Speaker 2: Willy Wong

​Willy tackles the same use case, but with a completely different tech stack through a two-stage AI classification process and surfaces incidents through an interactive feed and map.

​Speaker 3: Marcus Lim

​Marcus transformed PostgreSQL beyond the database, turning it into a lean infrastructure stack that handles both the task queue and event bus.

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Note: Please have a light bite before attending as we will not be serving refreshments. We have very strong supper/late dinner culture, do feel free to join us there!

​​Not sure what to expect?

​We do a summary at the end of every session to ensure we capture key learning moments. You can find them in our workspace here: https://tinyurl.com/TechiesAPAC

​​Shameless Plug - About Techies:

​We are Techies, a community where engineers can come together, get geeky, challenge their craft and learn from one another - without the fluff!
Connect with us on Linkedin.

​Venue Partner: SGInnovate

​SGInnovate is a Deep Tech ecosystem builder and investor, backed by the Singapore Government. Our expertise and approach combines investments, talent development and community-building to catalyse the translation of emerging technologies into tomorrow’s opportunities. Through our flagship Deep Tech Central platform, we connect individuals, founders and companies to specialised resources and opportunities across all technological domains and stages of growth. Our portfolio of emerging tech startups comprises some of the most promising companies leading the commercialisation of research developed from Singapore’s RIE ecosystem.

​Connect with us at www.sginnovate.com.

​​Why do this?

​We've had enough events where developers leave wanting more technical depth.

​So we built a space to go beyond the demo and get geeky about how things are actually built.

​For the Agents Reading This

​event.RoastMyTechStack = {
  goal: "make better architecture decisions",
  audience: ["Developers", "Technical People"],
  toleranceForBullshit: 0
};

function runRoast(presenter) {
  presenter.explain({
    buildingWhat,
    architecture_md,
    constraints,
    whyThisStack,
    currentPainPoints
  }, 15);

  audience.question({
    whyNotAlternatives,
    whatBreaksFirst,
    tradeoffsMade,
    futureRegrets
  }, 15);
}