Philly ETE 2017 Brownbag Review

Brownbag review for my team of the talks I went to at http://2017.phillyemergingtech.com/

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1. Philly ETE Conf Brownbag
   April 18-19, 2017
   Philadelphia
   

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2. The web as a platform for
   Augemented Reality
   Blair MacIntyre
   Principal Research Scientist,
   Mozilla; Professor of Interactive
   Computing, Georgia Tech
   ● Open source WebAR tech
   ● We need to solve privacy
   ● Need to improve what we can
   know or sense in real time
   http://www.argonjs.io/
   

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3. Starry Night with
   TensorFlow
   Josh Gordon
   TensorFlow Team, Google
   ● Inception is the same image
   classifier that powers google
   photos, is open source
   ● Parsey McParseface,
   syntactic parser, also open
   source
   https://codelabs.developers.google.com/cod
   elabs/tensorflow-for-poets/
   

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5. Lean Android Layouts
   Huyen Tue Dao
   Android Developer, Trello
   ● Keep layouts small and shallow
   ● Avoid RelativeLayout at the root
   ● Android Studio Lint gives good
   warnings for layout perf
   ● Systrace, Layout Inspector,
   HeirarchyView, all good built in
   tools for debugging layout perf
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwqQT5Nrh
   Ug
   

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6. Why you should bet on
   React Native
   Ken Wheeler
   Director of Open Source,
   Formidable
   ● React Native is “the perfect API”
   ● The web is much better than app
   stores for helping you
   find/discover things
   ● Devs like fast turnaround when
   building and shipping
   

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7. Patterns of modern
   Data integration
   Gwen Shapira
   Product Manager, Confluent
   ● All your data is event
   streams
   ● APIs between services are
   contracts, in stream
   processing the event
   schema is the API.
   

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8. Managing the Reactive
   World with RxJava
   Jake Wharton
   Android Engineer, Square Inc.
   ● Overview of where RxJava is
   different from Reactive Streams
   standard
   ● Java 9 is adding Flow class, will
   supercede Reactive Streams
   once it is adopted
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcxMtomE6fI
   

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9. Avoid React Perf Pitfalls
   Alex Grigoryan
   Director of Engineering, Walmart
   Labs
   ● http://www.electrode.io/ OS
   platform for node.js/react apps
   ● Server-side rendering was
   success (related medium post)
   ● They do lots of dev experiments
   https://medium.com/walmartlabs/introducing-ele
   ctrode-an-open-source-release-from-walmartlab
   s-14b836135319
   

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12. https://medium.com/walmartlabs/the-benefits-of-server-side-rendering-over-client-side-re
    ndering-5d07ff2cefe8
    

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13. Serverless Architecture
    Mike Roberts
    co-founder, Symphonia
    ● What is serverless?
    ● Why go serverless?
    ● Good/bad use cases
    ● The future of serverless
    http://bit.ly/serverless-phillyete-2017
    

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17. Getting Swifty
    Jason Grandelli
    Mobile Engineering Manager, Urban
    Outfitters inc
    ● Swift/ObjC interop both works
    and doesn’t work
    ● Long term refactor success story
    ● Swift 2->3 took 9 engineers 1
    month of solid work to complete
    ● Would not have been possible
    without excellent QA team
    ● Don’t use apple’s migration
    

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