SC2021 - Keep betting on Sails - Kelvin Omereshone, Founder, The Sailscasts Company

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1. Keep betting on Sails Like the world did on JavaScript and it paid o f
2. Kelvin Omereshone • Founder and CEO, The Sailscasts Company • sailscasts.com - A platform to master Sails. 10 kick - ass courses by the end of 2021 about Sails • blog.sailscasts.com - articles about Sails 
 • Dominus_Kelvin on Twi tt er 
 • Bookworm currently reading Ge tt ing Real by DHH and Jason Fried
3. JavaScript keeps winning 💪
4. Brief history About Sails.js
5. Sails.js, A really brief history • First commit in January 16, 2012 • Built mostly as an app for a client 

6. Sails.js, the present 2021 • 9 years old • Powering businesses large and small 
 
 

7. Another brief history About my journey in Node.js and Sails.js
8. Sails and I • 2015 - Originally learnt backend development with PHP/Laravel • 2017 - early 2018 - Jumped on the Node.js bandwagon 
 • 2019 - Frustrated with Express and seemed a be tt er way 
 • Late 2019 - Present - Helplessly in love 😍 with Sails and building Sailscasts to teach Sails
9. But why Sails Kelvin? Why not Sails?
10. Why I think Sails rock! • My philosophy for choosing a tech - Why was it made? • It’s simple - KISS • It gets out of my way 
 • It’s relatable 
 • It’s opinionated 
 • It’s JavaScript 
 • And more 🔥 

11. Why you should bet on Sails
12. Why I bet on Sails and why you should too • Still at v1 and kicking ass • Look at it’s past and where its been • Mike want to keep using Sails 
 • Think of what it will be in v2, v3, vX 😋 
 • It was made not to be shiny but e ff ective 
 • Big businesses still build on it today 
 

13. Be the change you want to see in the world
14. We(as a community) are Sails • An open - source project is as strong as its community • Teach everything you know • Contribute(content, code, etc) • You can blog on blog.sailscasts.com 
 

15. Thanks Sailsconf 2021 was lit 🔥