21st Century Languages Panel | QCon San Francisco 2018

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Abstract

Join track hosts Ashley Williams (Core Rust Team member) as she pulls together an interlanguage working group to discuss our software languages. There's no Golden Hammer come hear an active discussion on picking the right one for your use case!

Host: Ashley Williams

Core Rust Team @RustLang

Works on the Rust Programming Language and WebAssembly for Mozilla. Previously, wrote and maintained Rust and Node.js backend services at NPM, Inc. Rust core team member and leads the Rust community team. Founded NodeTogether educational Initiative and member of the Node.js Board of Directors. Invited expert to TC-39 representing the language learnability.

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@ag_dubs

Speaker: Jay Phelps

Chief Software Architect @ThisDotMedia

Reactive programming nut and compiler enthusiast. Jay is the Chief Software Architect and Co-founder at This Dot, where they provide support, training, mentoring, and software design. Previously a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix. Lover of all things open source, his contributions span numerous ecosystems and active in the community as a Google Developer Expert for Web Technologies and W3C WebAssembly Community Group member.

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@_jayphelps

Speaker: Aarti Parikh

Engineering Manager @PayPal

Aarti Parikh is a software engineering manager with a decade of experience building teams and products for the Internet, IoT and now Fintech. In her last project, she managed the wholesale rewrite of several C services to Go, which greatly reduced bugs and increased developer velocity.

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https://twitter.com/classyhacker

http://linkedin.com/in/aartiparikh/

Speaker: Diane Hosfelt

Research Engineer @mozilla

Diane Hosfelt is the security lead for the Mixed Reality team at Mozilla Research and works closely with the Rust Project to improve security with formal methods and unsafe code guidelines. In her free time, she enjoys the great indoors with her cats, Batman and Watson.

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@avadacatavra

Speaker: Bryan Cantrill

Co-Creator DTrace, Co-Founder Fishworks Sun Microsystems, & Currently CTO @Joyent

Bryan Cantrill is the CTO at Joyent, where he oversees worldwide development of the SmartOS and SmartDataCenter platforms. Prior to joining Joyent, Bryan served as a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he spent over a decade working on system software, from the guts of the kernel to client-code on the browser. In particular, he co-designed and implemented DTrace, a facility for dynamic instrumentation of production systems that won the Wall Street Journal's top Technology Innovation Award in 2006 and the USENIX Software Tools User Group Award in 2008.

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@bcantrill

Director, Platform Architecture @wso2

Sameera Jayasoma

The JDK in 2018: What's Here, and What's Next

Spec Lead, Java Language @Oracle

Alex Buckley

CLR/CoreCLR: How We Got Here & Where We're Going

Principal Dev Manager for .NET Language and Runtime @Microsoft

Mei-Chin Tsai

CLR/CoreCLR: How We Got Here & Where We're Going

Principal Developer Lead on C# Language Team @Microsoft

Jared Parsons

Brewing Java Applications in Sigma Managed Clusters

Chief Scientist, Java Technologies and Software Hardware Co-Optimization @AlibabaGroup

Kingsum Chow

Learning to Love Type Systems

Engineering Manager @Netflix

Lauren Tan

npm and the Future of JavaScript

Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer @npmjs

Laurie Voss

Is It Time to Rewrite the Operating System in Rust?

Co-Creator DTrace, Co-Founder Fishworks Sun Microsystems, & Currently CTO @Joyent

Bryan Cantrill

Developing Great Web APIs Architectures w/ ASP.NET Core 2.1

Developer Advocate @Jetbrains

Chris Woodruff

Tracks

Monday, 5 November

Microservices / Serverless Patterns & Practices

Evolving, observing, persisting, and building modern microservices
Practices of DevOps & Lean Thinking

Practical approaches using DevOps & Lean Thinking
JavaScript & Web Tech

Beyond JavaScript in the Browser. Exploring WebAssembly, Electron, & Modern Frameworks
Modern CS in the Real World

Thoughts pushing software forward, including consensus, CRDT's, formal methods, & probabilistic programming
Modern Operating Systems

Applied, practical, & real-world deep-dive into industry adoption of OS, containers and virtualization, including Linux on Windows, LinuxKit, and Unikernels
Optimizing You: Human Skills for Individuals

Better teams start with a better self. Learn practical skills for IC

Tuesday, 6 November

Architectures You've Always Wondered About

Next-gen architectures from the most admired companies in software, such as Netflix, Google, Facebook, Twitter, & more
21st Century Languages

Lessons learned from languages like Rust, Go-lang, Swift, Kotlin, and more.
Emerging Trends in Data Engineering

Showcasing DataEng tech and highlighting the strengths of each in real-world applications.
Bare Knuckle Performance

Killing latency and getting the most out of your hardware
Socially Conscious Software

Building socially responsible software that protects users privacy & safety
Delivering on the Promise of Containers

Runtime containers, libraries, and services that power microservices

Wednesday, 7 November

Applied AI & Machine Learning

Applied machine learning lessons for SWEs, including tech around TensorFlow, TPUs, Keras, PyTorch, & more
Production Readiness: Building Resilient Systems

More than just building software, building deployable production ready software
Developer Experience: Level up your Engineering Effectiveness

Improving the end to end developer experience - design, dev, test, deploy, operate/understand.
Security: Lessons Attacking & Defending

Security from the defender's AND the attacker's point of view
Future of Human Computer Interaction

IoT, voice, mobile: Interfaces pushing the boundary of what we consider to be the interface
Enterprise Languages

Workhorse languages found in modern enterprises. Expect Java, .NET, & Node in this track

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Presentation: 21st Century Languages Panel

Track: 21st Century Languages

Location: Pacific DEKJ

Duration: 4:10pm - 5:00pm

Day of week: Tuesday

Level: Intermediate - Advanced

Persona: Developer

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Host: Ashley Williams

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Speaker: Jay Phelps

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Speaker: Aarti Parikh

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Speaker: Diane Hosfelt

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Speaker: Bryan Cantrill

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