How I learned to love Ember

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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 !

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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!

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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

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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

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44. But then I start poking around...

45. "This looks nice and familiar..."

46. 15 minutes later...

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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?

61. None

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
65. None

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

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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

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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