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A casual weekly virtual chat mostly focused on web and software development.

Weekly Dev Chat is a place to ask questions, hear different viewpoints, and get to know your fellow developers. Every week there is an initial topic posted to get the discussion started. Sometimes we discuss the initial topic the entire chat, and other times the topic changes several times through the natural flow of the conversation.

Everyone and anyone are welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others.

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Testing

What is the state of testing at your workplace? Is it continuous? Do you have a dedicated QA team? What tools are you using to support testing? Has Test-Driven Development (TDD) made a significant impact in the industry? Are you conducting security-focused testing?

Last week, AWS experienced an outage—arguably unanticipated due to insufficient testing. Do you test for infrastructure failures?

Everyone and anyone are welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others. Zoom link will be posted at 12pm MDT.

testing

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Staying up to date - Virtual (October 21st, 2025)

Staying up to date

The topic for October 21st, 2025 chat is: how to stay up to date with emerging technologies, frameworks, and industry best practices? How do you keep your skills sharp in a rapidly evolving field? What resources, communities, or strategies do you find most effective for continuous learning and professional growth?

Thanks to a community member for suggesting this topic. If you have topic you would like to discuss in a future chat, please let us know on LinkedIn Weekly Dev Chat group, the Dev Edmonton Slack, or sending us a message on Luma.

Everyone and anyone are welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others.

P.S. - We have started experimenting with Luma for registration. Give it a shot and let us know what you think.

P.S.S. - The header image was created with Claude. First it created a boring header image but I prompted it "Try again. That image is boring and and bland." and the above is what it came up with.

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IRL Watch Party - October 21st

WDC Watch Party

The Weekly Dev Chat team is hosting our first ever in real-life watch party on Tuesday, October 21st. Similar to the virtual version but in real-life (IRL) and instead of an initial topic, we will watch a short video presentation about software development then discuss the ideas in the video.

You can find more details and register using the link below:

https://luma.com/n7wo0ucb

Everyone and anyone are welcome to join as long as you are kind, supportive, and respectful of others.