Track Overview
Clientside: From WASM to Browser Applications
Dive into some of the technologies that can be leveraged to ultimately deliver a more impactful interaction between the user and client.
From this track
Server-Side Wasm: Today and Tomorrow
Thursday Nov 5 / 12:00PM EST
Wasm has already started making waves in the web development community, enabling developers to run code written in various languages at near-native performance. There is so much potential for Wasm to enable similar capabilities outside of the browser, which is what I explore in this talk. Docker...
Connor Hicks
Lead Developer - Product Discovery @1Password
Create Autonomous, Highly Productive Teams By Lowering the Stakes
Thursday Nov 5 / 12:50PM EST
Every company's dream is to have highly productive teams that ship quickly and reliably, self-start while supporting the company's overall strategy and goals, and create as little maintenance overhead and technical debt as possible. Unfortunately, this dream is often undercut by slow...
Jason Lengstorf
Principal Developer Experience Engineer @Netlify & Host of Learn With Jason
From Mixins to Custom Hooks: History of Sharing in React
Thursday Nov 5 / 01:40PM EST
React’s component-driven design simplifies reusing UI because chunks of markup can be encapsulated into custom components. Likewise, sharing traditional data utilities is straightforward because React is “Just JavaScript”™. But what about sharing non-visual component logic...
Ben Ilegbodu
Principal Frontend Engineer @stitchfix
Front End Happy Hour
Thursday Nov 5 / 02:30PM EST
Front End Happy Hour is a podcast featuring a panel of Software Engineers talking about all things front end development.
Jem Young
Senior Software Engineer - UI Infrastructure @Netflix
Stacy London
Senior Front-End Engineer @Atlassian
Ryan Burgess
Software Engineering Manager @Netflix
Jason Lengstorf
Principal Developer Experience Engineer @Netlify & Host of Learn With Jason
Ben Ilegbodu
Principal Frontend Engineer @stitchfix
Speakers from this track
Connor Hicks
Lead Developer - Product Discovery @1Password
My name is Connor Hicks. I live in Ottawa, Canada, and I lead the Product Discovery team at 1Password. I have been fascinated by distributed systems and web service architecture for a long time, which led me to build the Suborbital Development Platform with the goal of enabling developers to...
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Jason Lengstorf
Principal Developer Experience Engineer @Netlify & Host of Learn With Jason
Jason Lengstorf works as a principal developer experience engineer at Netlify and hosts Learn With Jason, a live-streamed video show where he pair programs to learn something new in 90 minutes. He spends a lot of time telling people that the formula for success and happiness is to lift each other...
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Ben Ilegbodu
Principal Frontend Engineer @stitchfix
Ben is a Christian, husband, and father of 3, with 15 years of professional experience developing user interfaces for the Web. He currently is a Principal Frontend Engineer at Stitch Fix on their Frontend Platform team, helping architect their Design System and build out their Frontend...
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Jem Young
Senior Software Engineer - UI Infrastructure @Netflix
Jem Young is a tall engineer at Netflix who loves dogs, reading, and clean code. He really enjoys working across the stack but his true passion lies in JavaScript and building a clean user experience. He believes that empathy is the key to building an effective UI and when he’s not at the...
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Stacy London
Senior Front-End Engineer @Atlassian
Stacy London is a Senior Front-End Engineer at Atlassian. While at Atlassian, she’s worked on Bitbucket Cloud, the Frontend Platform team where she focused on building UI performance tooling, and now Trello. She’s also a panelist on the podcast the Front End Happy Hour.
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Ryan Burgess
Software Engineering Manager @Netflix
Ryan Burgess is a Software Engineering Manager at Netflix. He leads a UI engineering team responsible for building and iterating the Netflix signup flow on iOS, Android, Web, and TV. Ryan is also the host on the popular front end podcast, Front End Happy Hour that focuses discussions on a breadth...
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Track Host
Ryan Burgess
Software Engineering Manager @Netflix
Ryan Burgess is a Software Engineering Manager at Netflix. He leads a UI engineering team responsible for building and iterating the Netflix signup flow on iOS, Android, Web, and TV. Ryan is also the host on the popular front end podcast, Front End Happy Hour that focuses discussions on a breadth...
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