Track Overview
Applied JavaScript - Atomic Applications and APIs
Sitting at the top of Stack Overflow's "Most Popular Technology" chart for the third year in a row, JavaScript has driven the explosion of Single Page Apps, component based UIs and loosely coupled micro-services. Additionally, serverless technology, the Internet of Things, rapid development of the node.js runtime and increasing numbers of compile-to-JS programming languages are all changing the way companies and individuals plan and build their software. While companies like Netflix, Amazon and Uber trumpet the benefits of micro-services there is a community of engineers digging into the detail of converting their monolith into composable parts. This includes their client-side applications. This track asks questions of the engineers replacing their stack (either client or server) with smaller, loosely coupled and highly targeted applications. These are teams who are working to replace HTML & jQuery with React components, JavaScript with more functional languages like PureScript or Elm and traditional MVC monoliths with JavaScript powered micro-services.
From this track
Full-Scale Elm in Production
Elm is a functional programming language that compiles to performant JavaScript. At NoRedInk we have over 80,000 lines of production Elm code. It's the primary technology we use to build our Web application's user interface, which students around the world use to answer millions of questions per...
Richard Feldman
Elm Pioneer & Software Engineer @noredink
Adventures in JavaScript and the IoT
From installations to promote superstar DJs on trains speeding across Europe to sitting in Motorway LED billboards debugging wi-fi cards when the temperature drops below zero, our experience building for the IoT has highlighted just how unpredictable failure can be. This talk is a warts and all...
James Hall
Founder/Director @Parallax
The Hitchhiker's Guide to Serverless Javascript
Tools like AWS’s Lambda, Google's Cloud Functions, and many others are allowing us to create “serverless” applications. At Bustle (a top 30 website in the US) we are taking full advantage of this new infrastructure. APIs, databases, searching, indexing, server side rendered javascript, are...
Steve Faulkner
Director of Engineering @Bustle
Rebuilding The Monolith With Composable Apps
Working with JavaScript is exciting. There's constant change - in the language, the runtimes and the community. The last 24 months have seen the rise and fall of frameworks, libraries, platforms and best practises. All this change is great if you have the option to build smaller products, either...
Ian Thomas
Senior Principal Engineer @thestarsgroup
Microservices At The Heart of BBC iPlayer
The BBC iPlayer API used to be a monolithic Java application. Two years ago we switched to Node.js microservices and we have been iterating on it ever since. We have learnt many things along the way including how to keep distributed systems decoupled, how to monitor the health of our services in...
Cem Staveley
Software Engineer @BBC iPlayer
JavaScript Open Space
Speakers from this track
Richard Feldman
Elm Pioneer & Software Engineer @noredink
Richard is the author of “Elm in Action” from Manning Publications, and the instructor for the Frontend Masters 2-Day Elm Workshop. When he’s not writing about Elm, teaching Elm, speaking about Elm, or co-hosting the San Francisco Elm meetup, he likes to take a break from his job at...
Read moreFind Richard Feldman at:
James Hall
Founder/Director @Parallax
James Hall has been working in the digital sector for 12 years. He is the author of the popular jsPDF library, and is a founder/Director of Parallax, a digital agency in the UK. He's worked as a software developer on a wide variety of projects, from LED Billboards, car unlocking apps, to large...
Read more
Steve Faulkner
Director of Engineering @Bustle
Steve Faulkner is the Director of Platform Engineering at Bustle, where he is championing all things "serverless". Previously he co-founded the streaming music startup Murfie. He lives in Philadelphia.
Read moreFind Steve Faulkner at:
Ian Thomas
Senior Principal Engineer @thestarsgroup
After The Stars Group purchased Sky Betting & Gaming in 2018, Ian was one of the first technical members to join the newly founded Group Sports & Trading Platforms (GSTP) tribe and has been instrumental in designing the architecture and software that will power Sky Bet international, Fox...
Read moreFind Ian Thomas at:
Cem Staveley
Software Engineer @BBC iPlayer
Cem Staveley is a Software Engineer for BBC iPlayer. He has been with the BBC for the last two and a half years working on various products including Weather, the News and Sport content production systems and iPlayer. He has worked across the entire stack, but has narrowed his focus down to his...
Read moreFind Cem Staveley at:
Track Host
Ian Thomas
Senior Principal Engineer @thestarsgroup
After The Stars Group purchased Sky Betting & Gaming in 2018, Ian was one of the first technical members to join the newly founded Group Sports & Trading Platforms (GSTP) tribe and has been instrumental in designing the architecture and software that will power Sky Bet international, Fox...
Read more