How I learned to love Ember

1. How I learned to <3 Ember
2. HI!
3. I'm Ju !
4. You can find me as @arkh4m
5. I'm Italian !
6. MAMMA BUTTA LA PASTA
7. I live in London !
9. I work at AlphaSights We're in London and New York And we're huuuge Ruby & Ember fans
10. I'm addicted to rock climbing!
12. BUSINESS TIME
13. I'm here to tell a story
14. A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....
15. I was a PhD student working on packet filtering in high speed networks
16. Friend: "Hey, wanna join our Rails shop?"
17. Me: "OK"
18. PROBLEM
19. I knew nothing about web development.
20. So I started studying Ruby
21. But that wasn't enough, so I studied Rails
22. But that wasn't enough, so I studied OOP
23. But that wasn't enough, so I studied TDD
24. And I was happy
25. I was really enjoying myself doing what every backend Ruby developer loves to do
26. BUT THEN CAME THE JAVASCRIPT
27. So I learned jQuery
28. Then I learned KnockoutJS
29. Then I learned BackboneJS
30. Then I learned MarionetteJS
31. Then I learned BatmanJS
32. Then I learned AngularJS
33. But I still wasn't happy
35. A9. The most advanced chip ever The most vivid Retina display ever TouchID faster and better than ever 3D Touch lets you do more than ever The most powerful 4-inch phone ever IOS 9 is smarter and more essential than ever The 27-inch iMac is faster and more powerful than ever
36. When everything is revolutionary, probably nothing really is — Albert Einstein
37. I was pretty deep into The Pit of JavaScript Disillusionment
38. But I had my Ruby, my OOP and my TDD
39. So everything was good!
40. But one day..
41. We're going to rebuild this Rails app in Ember!
42. Initially I wasn't really excited
44. But then I start poking around...
45. "This looks nice and familiar..."
46. 15 minutes later...
48. Even though I thought I knew Rails and JS, Ember looked like something completely different
49. And I wasn't a huge fan because it was doing too many things
50. KISS
51. Keep It Simple, Stupid
52. Simple is better than complex — The Zen of Python
53. Write programs that do one thing and do it well — Doug McIlroy
54. Why do you have to go and make things so complicated? — Avril Lavigne
55. 2 years later...
56. Now I love Ember :)
57. I can do everything!
58. So what changed?
59. The Gmail Test
60. I have to rebuild Gmail. How would I do it?
62. I couldn't figure out a way to do it by keeping it simple...
63. Simple is better than complex — The Zen of Python
64. But complex is better than complicated — The Zen of Python
66. An ambitious application solves a real problem
67. And as we know, reality is full of complexity
68. Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler — Albert Einstein
69. So I stopped using 'simplicity' as an excuse :)
70. Also, I found out why I wasn't enjoying myself in JS
71. It wasn't the syntax
72. It wasn't handling state
73. It wasn't handling async
74. But the revolution at any cost mindset
75. HYPE FATIGUE
77. Second System Syndrome
78. We need to rebuild this from scratch
79. It's going to be easier, faster, more expressive
80. But it's not gonna be backwards compatible
81. → Perl 5 -> Perl 6
82. → Python 2 -> Python 3
83. → Angular 1 -> Angular 2
84. Intelligent design
85. I have the perfect plan, now let's build it
87. Natura non facit saltus — Linnaeus, 1751
88. Stability Without Stagnation
89. Eventually all the good ideas will end up in Ember — wycats
90. When I was learning Ember, I was learning a piece of software.
91. But the truth is, there are many pieces of software around.
92. This is my framework. There are many like it, but this one is mine. — Full Metal Jacket
93. But what I learned to love is much more than a frame of work
94. It's a frame of mind
95. It's having a truly open source process
96. It's valuing backwards compatibility
97. It's building inclusive communities
98. It's embracing continuous mutation over short lived revolutions
99. Don't be a JS Creationist Learn to love Ember!
100. Thank you! ! @arkh4m engineering.alphasights.com