CraftConf in sunny Budapest aims to be the conference in Central Europe where developers share what’s state of the art in building software. Joining the 2015 edition was an easy choice, after the first edition a year earlier received rave reviews from attendees. Three days, 16 talks and a workshop later I emerged with 6,062 words worth of notes, distilled into a few broad trends that seem to represent the edge of the industry right now.