It may be 2017, but it hasn’t become any easier to choose the right JavaScript framework for your project or organization. Although there are a few nascent contenders like Vue.js and Cycle.js, the “framework wars” of 2017 mainly pit Facebook’s juggernaut React against Google’s powerhouse Angular, which faced controversy after a decision to completely rewrite … Read More
In this talk, Ken Rimple shows you how to use various reactive APIs in Angular to provide a gaming platform. His Drum Legend game, which gamifies drum rudiment practice, uses WebMidi, WebAudio, RxJS, NGRX Store, NGRX Effects and NGRX DevTools to provide an audio chain for synthesis and sample triggering, and NGRX Store / Effects … Read More
Some organizations have implemented a brand of “agile” which is full of ceremonies, conformance, compliance, and standardization; a heavyweight process that was never intended by original Agilists. Instead, we re-invigorate agility by (re)turning to values which focus teams on outcomes instead of outputs create a culture that welcomes teamwork and healthy confrontation support continuous learning … Read More
Poet and critic Paul Valéry got to the heart of the relationship between art and business when he wrote, in 1922, “[For lovers of perfection], a work is never finished…but abandoned,” the act of abandonment being “the result of weariness or an obligation to deliver.” We software developers are, in the main, lovers of perfection–and … Read More
One of the guiding principles of the Convox project is that you should always consume a service rather than running custom software. This talk will focus on how we use this approach to build Convox, the motivations behind it, and why you should delegate the bulk of your technology burden to focus on the things … Read More
Haskell, a language older than Java and Python, has only recently seen an uptick in commercial use. Why did it take so long? In this talk, we’ll see how design decisions made almost thirty years ago are paying off, as well as tooling improvements that have made Haskell more suitable for commercial use. Seen through … Read More
Today’s business and technology leaders understand that a good user experience (UX) is a leading factor in product success and customer happiness. Popular dogma says that cross-functional, autonomous agile teams are the way to achieve great UX — but this isn’t always true. This panel of designers, developers, and tech leaders will discuss the sources … Read More
In this talk, Moore will share real-world case studies of how Lean Analytics helped RJMetrics, its partners, and its clients make smarter decisions at every stage of growth.
We will talk about Spotify’s story of migrating our big data infrastructure to Google Cloud. Over the past year or so we moved away from maintaining our own 2500+ node Hadoop cluster to managed services in the cloud. We replaced two key components in our data processing stack, Hive and Scalding, with BigQuery and Scio … Read More
One of the biggest challenges in systems development is scaling. We want to scale vertically, horizontally, and organizationally. Sometimes we even want to scale our processes. Why is it so hard? In many cases, it is because we want to find structures that work well at all scales. When we can’t we call it failure … Read More
