Becca Refford

Philly ETE 2020 – Matt Gilbride & Drew DeCarme – Typesafe Design Systems

Check out our YouTube playlist to watch all the talks from Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise 2020. Abstract What is a design system? The answer depends on which part of the software development team you ask. To web developers, it is often synonymous with a low-level library of components. Those components are used interchangeably to … Read More

Philly ETE 2020 – Martin Snyder – All Kinds of Free

Check out our YouTube playlist to watch all the talks from Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise 2020. Abstract Free is a word that has been overloaded through the course of human history, with both good intentions and bad. All will be enumerated with a specific focus on “free” in the context of the modern internet … Read More

Philly ETE 2020 – Kevin Qian – Deno: Experiments with Javascript and Typescript

Check out our YouTube playlist to watch all the talks from Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise 2020. Abstract 11 years have passed since Node.js brought JavaScript to the server-side. As Node.js was gaining momentum and becoming one of the most popular server platforms, JavaScript itself continued to evolve in its own independent direction. Furthermore, with … Read More

Philly ETE 2020 – Jonathan Ellis – The Next Five Years in Databases

Check out our YouTube playlist to watch all the talks from Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise 2020. Abstract Last year at Philly ETE, Jonathan explained five lessons from his last five years in distributed databases. This time, he offers his predictions on the future: what impact will databases experience from machine learning, graph algorithms, hardware … Read More

Philly ETE 2020 – Jessica Kerr – Investigation and Creation of Software

Check out our YouTube playlist to watch all the talks from Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise 2020. Abstract As software developers we operate in pockets of reality with their own rules. From our language system to frameworks to the software we interface with, our work is first that of the scientist: how does this happen? … Read More