5:30 - 6:25 - Registration, social hour
6:30 - 6:35 - Welcome
6:35 - 8:20 - Talks
8:20 - 9:30 - Social hour
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Talk 1
Tracy Lee: Inclusive Architecture - Designing your applications & team for the future.
https://twitter.com/ladyleet
We are all too familiar with projects & companies that only seem to be able to support senior developers, but this can get expensive, unsustainable, & your team can begin to look very myopic. Teams begin groupthink, ideas become stale, & it can be difficult to reinvigorate the growing sense of mundane development. It doesn't have to be this way. In fact, creating an inclusive architecture can help development go faster & become more cost effective.
It's not difficult to begin adjusting your sails & beginning to create an architecture that is inclusive in nature to support junior developers, project managers, & designers. No application is too critical, complicated, or obscure to be able to achieve this. We'll talk through frameworks, tools, abstractions, & simple steps that can help you start building inclusively.
We will also talk through how you can build a corresponding culture that allows inclusivity on your team, & why this is so critical to your business. We'll walk through processes you can incorporate, team roles, & how you can build a better template for the future of your business.
About Tracy
Tracy is the Co-Founder of This Dot Labs, a consultancy helping teams build front end applications & is focused on changing the ratio in tech. She is also a Google Developer Expert, RxJS Core Team member, a Women Techmakers Lead, & a frequent keynote speaker at conferences. She heads up Community Relations at Node Foundation, is the host of the Modern Web podcast, organizer of This.JavaScript, Contributor Days, Google Developer Group Silicon Valley & Triangle, & RxWorkshop. You can find her on Twitter @ladyleet or at http://thisdot.co/labs.
Talk 2
Dominik Kundel: Turning an application UI into an API
https://twitter.com/dkundel
For backend services, having a flexible API is a common practice that allows you to combine different APIs as if they were LEGO blocks & solve almost any business need. At Twilio weve been doing REST APIs for over 10 years. When we recently decided to ship a software that has a working UI out of the box, we still wanted to make sure that it is as flexible as our REST APIs.
In this talk well dive into how we ended up architecting a programmable UI platform using React that both allows you to have a fully working UI out of the box but also lets you leverage the power of React yourself.
About Dominik
Dominik is a Developer Evangelist for Twilio in San Francisco. He has a passion for JavaScript, hackathons, teaching & good whiskey. You will usually find him speaking at meetups & conferences, mentoring at hackathons & Codebar or work on open source projects.
Talk 3
David Wells: Building an infinitely scalable serverless backend for your react app
https://twitter.com/davidwells
David will be discussing how easy it is for frontend developers to deploy serverless backends using plain ol JavaScript.
You will gain a deeper understanding of the wide variety of serverless solutions in the ecosystem including the different options for databases/filestorage/auth/alerting/queuing & everything else you might need for building real world scalable applications with minimal operational overhead (and at a fraction of the cost).
About David
David Wells is Serverless architect & full stack developer & currently DX @netlify
