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Conference: Nov 5-7, 2018
Workshops: Nov 8–9, 2018

Track: Web as Platform

Location: Pacific LMNO

Day of week: Wednesday

All things Browser, from JavaScript Frameworks for animation and AR / VR to Web Assembly and from protocol work to open standards evolution.

Track Host:
Kevin Ball
Project Lead & Contributor @ZURBfoundation

Kevin Ball is an experienced web developer and entrepreneur. He has co-founded and acted as CTO for 2 companies, founded the San Diego Javascript Meetup, is a regular presenter at local tech meetups, and consults on software development, communication, and leadership.
10:35am - 11:25am

by Natasha Rooney
W3C Advisory Board, Stack Evolution Board IETA, & Engineering Director @GSMA
Solving HTTP Problems With Code and Protocols

The networks which carry websites and app content is constantly changing; and not many of us know how. In the last few years most of our content has moved to being provided over HTTP, but in doing this internet engineers found out that HTTP is too old and clunky for today’s internet content. This talk will go through the issues in HTTP, how HTTP2 was developed using Google’s SPDY experiment, and how QUIC will change everything.

11:50am - 12:40pm

by Jay Phelps
Senior Software Engineer @Netflix
The WebAssembly Revolution Has Begun

WebAssembly (aka wasm) is a new, standardized compilation target for the web, shipping in all modern browsers. But since it's so low level it can be difficult to see how it will revolutionize the next generation of web apps–and definitely not just games and C++. This is a game changer for all web developers.

In this talk Jay will reveal what it is, how you can use it today, and the incredible opportunities it will unlock in the...

1:40pm - 2:30pm

by Michel Weksler
Software Engineer @Airbnb
Streamlining Online Checkout Using Web Standards

Too often, poor Web checkout experiences, especially on mobile devices, lead to user frustration and shopping cart abandonment. To streamline checkout and increase conversion rates, leaders from across the payments ecosystem have come together at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to develop open standards for payments on the Web. This incorporates new browser features to accelerate checkout, integration with mobile payment applications and enhanced payment...

2:55pm - 3:45pm
Web as Platform Open Space
4:10pm - 5:00pm

by Dan Wilson
Web Engineer @MutualMobile
Gaining Control with the Web Animations API

We've enjoyed CSS transitions and animations for several years, with their broad support and ability to get key performance gains. Now the Web Animations API is here and growing, so what does this let us do through JavaScript?

Through several examples, we will take a look at how this new JavaScript API came to be and how it compares to the alternate ways to animate on the web. We will work through its added benefits like...

5:25pm - 6:15pm

by Kieran Farr
Senior Director @Brightcove
Go Beyond Native With Web-Based VR and AR

The use of virtual and augmented reality hardware and software has exploded in the past few years thanks to products like the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Google Daydream, and recent releases of Apple's ARKit and Google's ARCore SDKs. But most of this growth is fueled by native applications in a highly fragmented ecosystem requiring developers to target specific hardware with proprietary SDKs.
Meanwhile delivering 3D experiences on the web has been improving at a rapid pace thanks to WebGL,...

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Tracks

  • Architectures You've Always Wondered About

    Architectural practices from the world's most well-known properties, featuring startups, massive scale, evolving architectures, and software tools used by nearly all of us.

  • Going Serverless

    Learn about the state of Serverless & how to successfully leverage it! Lessons learned in the track hit on security, scalability, IoT, and offer warnings to watch out for.

  • Microservices: Patterns and Practices

    Stories of success and failure building modern Microservices, including event sourcing, reactive, decomposition, & more.

  • DevOps: You Build It, You Run It

    Pushing DevOps beyond adoption into cultural change. Hear about designing resilience, managing alerting, CI/CD lessons, & security. Features lessons from open source, Linkedin, Netflix, Financial Times, & more. 

  • The Art of Chaos Engineering

    Failure is going to happen - Are you ready? Chaos engineering is an emerging discipline - What is the state of the art?

  • The Whole Engineer

    Success as an engineer is more than writing code. Hear inward looking thoughts on inclusion, attitude, leadership, remote working, and not becoming the brilliant jerk.

  • Evolving Java

    Java continues to evolve & change. Track covers Spring 5, async, Kotlin, serverless, the 6-month cadence plans, & AI/ML use cases.

  • Security: Attacking and Defending

    Offense and defensive security evolution that application developers should know about including SGX Enclaves, effects of AI, software exploitation techniques, & crowd defense

  • The Practice & Frontiers of AI

    Learn about machine learning in practice and on the horizon. Learn about ML at Quora, Uber's Michelangelo, ML workflow with Netflix Meson and topics on Bots, Conversational interfaces, automation, and deployment practices in the space.

  • 21st Century Languages

    Compile to Native, Microservices, Machine learning... tailor-made languages solving modern challenges, featuring use cases around Go, Rust, C#, and Elm.

  • Modern CS in the Real World

    Applied trends in Computer Science that are likely to affect Software Engineers today. Topics include category theory, crypto, CRDT's, logic-based automated reasoning, and more.

  • Stream Processing In The Modern Age

    Compelling applications of stream processing using Flink, Beam, Spark, Strymon & recent advances in the field, including Custom Windowing, Stateful Streaming, SQL over Streams.  

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