Track Overview
JavaScript and Beyond: The Future of the Frontend
The frontend is where customers are. That’s why the frontend is the most important part of the application for frequent change and learning. As the software industry grasps this, we’re placing more emphasis on strong tools for development for the browser. This track covers some of these, emphasizing how JavaScript languages and ecosystems are stronger, in speed of both creation and staying readable under frequent change. From types to tests and dependency management, the serious development is in the front end.
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WebAssembly (And the Death of JavaScript?)
JavaScript brought interactivity to the web more than 20 years ago, and despite numerous challengers, it is still the only language supported by browser. However, as those 20 years have passed we've moved from adding a little interactivity to largely static sites, to creating complex...
Colin Eberhardt
CTO @Scott_Logic
Reinventing npmjs.com
The npm website has some catching up to do. It began as the homepage for a fledgling open source project and it has grown to become the foremost resource for over 600,000 packages in the npm registry. It now needs to keep up with the expectations of modern users and evolve into something...
Katie Fenn
Software Engineer @npm
JavaScript Open Space
Enterprise Node.JS Apps in 2018
This talk is a candid and entertaining look at challenges facing node.js app developers in 2018. Reflecting on experiences building PayPal’s Send Money app we’ll look at how we respond to memory leaks, server crashes and bugs that only seem to reproduce on production. I’ll also address how...
Jamund Ferguson
JS Architect @PayPal
Observable JS Apps
Observability isn't just for backends. Client-side javascript applications are the original distributed systems software: real-time, heavily cached, single-paged, asynchronous, multi-domain, with polyglot persistence layers and cascading dependencies and always running massive amounts of JS. So...
Emily Nakashima
Engineer @Honeycomb & Co-Organizer of the AndConf Code Retreat / Unconference
Parallelizing Product Development with GraphQL
In this talk we will cover how to drive API development forward with the data model as the source of truth using the GraphQL Schema Definition Language. In typical REST approaches, UI development is often blocked on APIs and API development is hampered by not knowing how clients are using the...
Chris Biscardi
Product Engineer @Honeycomb
Speakers from this track
Colin Eberhardt
CTO @Scott_Logic
I’m the CTO at Scott Logic, a UK-based software consultancy where we create complex application for our financial services clients. I’m an avid technology enthusiast, spending my evenings contributing to open source projects, writing blog posts and learning as much as I can. You can...
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Katie Fenn
Software Engineer @npm
Katie Fenn is a software engineer at npm. She works with all aspects of the web, particularly JavaScript, CSS, Node.JS and ops. When not at her desk, she is usually in the pool or on her bike in the Peak District.
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Jamund Ferguson
JS Architect @PayPal
Jamund Ferguson is a JavaScript architect at PayPal. He loves to look at how following patterns consistently can prevent bugs in applications. He’s previously contributed to the ESLint and StandardJS open-source projects and has as of late become a fan of FlowType and TypeScript. He is married...
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Emily Nakashima
Engineer @Honeycomb & Co-Organizer of the AndConf Code Retreat / Unconference
Emily manages the frontend/web/product engineering team at Honeycomb.io. In the past, she's worked on javascript, web perf and monitoring at companies like Bugsnag & GitHub. In her free time she organizes an unconference called AndConf, makes many checklists, and likes to talk about disaster...
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Chris Biscardi
Product Engineer @Honeycomb
Chris is a product engineer currently working at Honeycomb on Observability tools. Before Honeycomb, he spent most of his time independently consulting; taking breaks to build the UI team at Docker and the Design Systems team at Dropbox. In his spare time, Chris builds tools for maintainers...
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Track Host
Jessica Kerr
Principal Developer Evangelist @honeycombio
Jessica Kerr (@jessitron) is a Principal Developer Evangelist at Honeycomb.io. After twenty years as a developer, she sees software as a significant force in the world. As software engineers, we change reality--including our own, and that's developer experience! Jess lives in St. Louis,...
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