A tale of scaling a production application rapidly to meet the needs of a major new customer. Learn practical strategies of how, and when to scale up, and when maybe some conversations could save you extra work and pain!
Scaling, High-availability, DevOps, Ops, Leadership
An exploration of the benefits of the Elm language, how development style changes when using it, and what learnings you can bring back with you to JavaScript, React, or other libraries.
Elm, React, JavaScript, Functional Programming, Frontend
A brief introductions to functors and the Maybe type, briefly touching on a tiny bit of Monadic properties
Functors, Maybes, Monads, Functional Programming
Through an analogy of storytelling, this talk aims to help you be the hero of your testing story by giving new context and perspective to the way a test suite should read to both your colleagues and your future self. We'll demonstrate how proper naming and assertions can lead to simpler, faster debugging. We'll also see how an end-to-end test has a far more compelling story when you focus on describing the feature and business goals over describing a specific UI workflow in painful detail.
Testing, BDD, Proper Naming
Object Oriented Design can add a lot to a project with just a little effort. With a bit of OOD code flows more naturally, can be refactored easier and tests become simpler to write. We will discuss these ideas as well as compare and contrast various design techniques.
Laravel, Object-Oriented Design, Testing, Responsibility, PHP History, Polymorphism, Duck Typing, Type Hinting