What is immutable infrastructure? How does it work? What are the pros and cons? Is it for everyone or only the likes of Yahoo and Netflix? What about the rest of us?
With the rise of microservice architectures, an increasing amount of what we do is weaving parts of Amazon Web Services (AWS) into distributed applications. This lightning talk will cover some best practises for automation with AWS that limits what an attacker can do if a part of the system is somehow compromised.
Graphic designers and web developers can offload a large chunk of their mundane work onto a set of tools which can automate away tedious tasks. These tools have offputting names like Gulp, Grunt and Broccoli, but with a little effort, they can save you hours of time, leaving you free to focus on being creative!
This talk will teach you what build tools are, how they work, and how they can help you to automate your workflow.
This talk will not be heavily technical – it will not feature any code, nor will it be tied to one specific tool. Instead, I intend to empower attendees with an understanding of the principles of build tools, and provide clear suggestions for next steps for designers and developers of all levels.
With the rise of microservice architectures, an increasing amount of what we do is weaving parts of Amazon Web Services (AWS) into distributed applications. This lightning talk will cover some best practises for automation with AWS that limits what an attacker can do if a part of the system is somehow compromised.
When helping companies improve their development practises, there are often conceptual sticking points - for example, rebase can be hard to understand and many people are wary of it. To help us better understand and communicate our workflows, I will illustrate Git concepts in the language of comic books, followed by a practical demonstration of the techniques. This session has something to offer all Git users - from newcomers trying to get their heads around it all, to veterans trying to communicate a workflow to their colleagues. It should certainly spark an interesting discussion!
The development of a programming language takes years. Yet, in ten hurried days in May 1995, Brendan Eich created JavaScript, which is currently the most widely used programming language in the world. Originally appearing in Netscape Navigator 2, JavaScript slowly became the lingua franca of the web. How did that happen? What historical factors led to JavaScript's creation and success? This talk examines these questions and many more.
One common sticking point for the pull request workflow that we often recommend is the need to occasionally git rebase feature branches - it can be hard to understand, and a lot of people are initially pretty scared of it. In this talk, I’m not going to give any code examples - there are thousands of articles that do that. Instead, I will illustrate the concept of git rebase using the world of comic books.
One common sticking point for the pull request workflow that we often recommend is the need to occasionally git rebase feature branches - it can be hard to understand, and a lot of people are initially pretty scared of it. In this talk, I’m not going to give any code examples - there are thousands of articles that do that. Instead, I will illustrate the concept of git rebase using the world of comic books.
What is immutable infrastructure? How does it work? What are the pros and cons? Is it for everyone or only the likes of Yahoo and Netflix? What about the rest of us?
The development of a programming language takes years. Yet, in ten hurried days in May 1995, Brendan Eich created JavaScript, which is currently the most widely used programming language in the world. Originally appearing in Netscape Navigator 2, JavaScript slowly became the lingua franca of the web. How did that happen? What historical factors led to JavaScript's creation and success? This talk examines these questions and many more.
We need to steer our projects, and to do that we need data. This helps us to make rational, informed decisions about our projects. It can, however, be extremely difficult to pick what to measure and how much stock to place in those measurements.
Legacy projects with no test coverage. Time to run for the hills? Not necessarily... We will explore the application of characterisation tests to a pre-existing product.
Legacy projects with no test coverage. Time to run for the hills? Not necessarily... We will explore the application of characterisation tests to a pre-existing product.
When it was created 2 years ago, AngularUI Router filled an important functionality gap in designing complex Angular apps. With Angular 2 approaching, is it still relevant? What makes it different from the new Component Router?
Nate will be joining UI Router co-contributor Chris Thielen and members of the Angular Air panel live to discuss the recent architectural overhaul, migration to TypeScript, and impending plans for a 1.0 release. Join us on Google Hangouts or direct your questions to @AngularAir.
Warren will be talking about "Next-level Functional Programming with Ramda" and Gavin will be speaking on "Reducing Infrustration with Immutable Infrastructure"
Gavin and Warren co-host Cardiff-based tech meetup Unified Diff. Gavin will be telling "The tale of the Million Dollar Homepage", which he was involved with a decade ago.
The Monad; once the exclusive tool of Haskell-speaking mystics, together we will unravel their secrets for exploitation in our PHP programs.
Underscore and Lodash are incredibly powerful libraries for reducing the verbosity of your code and taking the first steps on the Golden Path to Functional Enlightenment. Together we will continue the journey by looking at Ramda (ramdajs.com) and learn about immutability, currying, and why we should favour composition over chaining.
Gavin will be speaking on "Reducing Infrustration" - what is immutable infrastructure? How does it work? What are the pros and cons? Is it for everyone or only the likes of Yahoo and Netflix? What about the rest of us?
Gavin and Warren co-host Cardiff-based tech meetup Unified Diff. Warren Seymour will be presenting on "Next-level functional Javascript with Ramda"
React is an extension that brings event-driven, non-blocking IO to PHP. With this new paradigm comes the 'Promise'; a fascinating and powerful pattern for handling asynchronous behaviour. I'll be using React to demonstrate how Promises rock, and why you should consider them for your own applications.
Sometime a repository begins to smell; it's just not set up right. How can we apply refactoring strategies to source code repositories?
Take a deep dive into the new fully-rewritten AngularUI Router. This talk will go over some common pain points, and show how UI Router's new features address them, as well as how you can build clean, DRY apps by following UI Router's design.
Nate shares his thoughts on the future of programming as a keynote speaker during the UK's premier PHP conference.
10 years after the dawn of MVC frameworks in the PHP ecosystem, the community is now evolving away from monolithic frameworks, and towards a composition of decoupled components. This talk explores the early evolution of PHP frameworks, to the "2nd generation" of frameworks, to the migration toward components and beyond.
We adopted an immutable infrastructure approach for our web and API nodes.
Are you getting your feet wet with AngularJS, but looking to boost your skill level? Do you understand the basics, but get lost in the sea of available tools and resources? As a member of the AngularUI team, Nate has his finger on the pulse of the AngularJS community, and the state-of-the-art in tools and app-building practices. Be ready to take notes and ask questions in this resource-heavy talk.
A new model for designing web applications has emerged, driven by client-side JavaScript frameworks, new browser features, and increased expectations for rich user experiences.
This talk will take you on a tour of one such framework (AngularJS), and will show you how building a backend optimized for it can also mean building a backend optimized for the web. By leveraging often-overlooked features of HTTP, you can create cleaner architectures, with simpler, better, and more consistent HTTP APIs.