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/
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/
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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