Hannah Howard | QCon San Francisco 2018

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Speaker: Hannah Howard

Senior Developer and Tech Generalist @carbonfive

Hannah Howard is a senior developer and tech generalist with over 15 years experience in programming and other technical fields. Prior to programming, Hannah worked for 10 years in the non-profit sector in Los Angeles, specializing in LGBT advocacy and community organizing. Hannah returned to coding in 2012, and brings her passion and experience from community organizing to helping new programmers get up to speed on technical topics.

Find Hannah Howard at

@techgirlwonder

Talk : RxJS: A Better Way to Write Frontend Applications

Track : JavaScript & Web Tech

Location : Seacliff ABC

Day of week : Monday

Duration : 1:40pm - 2:30pm

Everything that happens in a frontend application is asynchronous; events happen - a user types something, a server responds with data - and our programs react. The traditional approach to this problem is to deal with asynchronous "parts" of your application in callbacks or promises, while working with static data structures and behaving as if the rest of the program were synchronous. After years of writing frontend apps, I still find this confusing and cumbersome. But what if we stopped trying to hide what is asynchronous and accepted that none of our data is static? This is the premise of functional reactive programming. We treat data itself as asynchronous - as streams which represent a snapshot a given value over time, and operations that can transform those values. Functional reactive programming is a major conceptual shift but one that can vastly simply frontend programming. You can use it regardless of what platform, or in the case of the web, what javascript MVC you rely on. It's an amazing technique that is the core of my toolbox in writing frontend apps. I want to help demystify it for you, and show you how you can use FRP today!

Other talks from track JavaScript & Web Tech

Desktop Applications in Electron: Pro Tips And Tricks

Software Developer @Facebook

Paul Betts

Fantastic Frontend Performance Tricks & Why We Do Them

Senior Software Engineer @SlackHQ

Jenna Zeigen

Learning to Love Type Systems

Engineering Manager @Netflix

Lauren Tan

npm and the Future of JavaScript

Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer @npmjs

Laurie Voss

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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