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