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What It Takes to Lead DevRel Teams with Cassidy Williams
Erin and Brian are joined by Cassidy Williams who'll discuss her path into developer relations, including leading it at multiple companies.
Event Archive
We've been running virtual presentations, workshops and conferences every month since August 2017. You can watch past events on Crowdcast and YouTube or view individual session recordings, which have been edited.
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What the Heck is Edge Computing?
Austin Gil will explain what the term really means, when it's applicable (and when it's not) and how to get started.
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Building Effective Developer Communities with Bekah Hawrot Weigel
Building developer communities is hard. You don't just have to get someone's attention — you also have to give them a reason to stay. In this episode, Sean and Bekah explore what it takes to build and find effective developer communities.
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Playing with Fire: Serverless PWA with Firebase
Michael Dowden will walk through building a serverless progressive web app (PWA) that will cover how to use database to cloud functions, hosting, and authentication in Firebase.
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The Best JavaScript Framework with Salma Alam-Naylor
You're ready to build your next project for the web, but how do you go about choosing the right JavaScript framework? Sean and Salma work together to answer that question.
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Introducing DevRel(ish) - a show about Developer Relations
Join Erin Makail Staples and Brian Rinaldi as they introduce a new show all about careers in Developer Relations (aka DevRel) and DevRel adjacent roles.
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Better REST through GraphQL
Alex Patterson will show how you can wrap existing REST APIs in GraphQL to give you the benefits of GraphQL without requiring a major rewrite of existing REST APIs.
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Why Web Performance Matters with Henri Helvetica
Keeping a website performing at its best means hitting a moving target. Why and how we do this is what Sean and Henri explore.
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TheJam.dev 2023
TheJam.dev is a 2-day virtual conference focused on how to build modern web applications using Jamstack, serverless and more
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Practical Testing for the Modern Website with Mark Noonan
Mark Noonan joins to talk front-end testing web applications and what tools can help developers test efficiently.
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The Challenges of the Modern CMS
Tiffany Janzen will explore common challenges with content-driven architecture, and how to choose a CMS that balances both flexibility and productivity.
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Framework Agnostic Web Components with Evan Sheehan
Sean will work with Evan Sheehan to try to understand why didn't web components catch on right away? Why are they back _now?_ Are they here to stay? And how can you get started working with them today?
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Solving Search for Static Sites
Liam Bigelow shows how the new, open-source Pagefind library helps developer add fast, low-bandwidth search to static sites.
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Effective Developer Documentation with Ember Stevens
Writing documentation for developers means answering a number of questions: How do we organize the content? How should navigation reflect that organization? How do we render code snippets? What application and format do we use for writing? How do we maintain docs over time? Ember Stevens joins to discuss.
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Server-side Rendering Web Components with Enhance
Simon MacDonald walks through how to get started building dynamic web applications that are based upon web standards using the Enhance framework.
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Building Multi-tenant SaaS Applications on AWS
Anubhav Sharma of AWS will give you a template you can use to architect a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application using AWS serverless services
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Running Developer Communities with Discord (Workshop)
Join Erin Mikail Staples as she walks you through the using Discord to manage developer and technical communities.
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30 Tips for Navigating Your Developer Career
James Quick will share tangible advice he's learned over the course of his career that can help you bring your career as a developer to the next level.
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Front-end Foxes Day 2022
Join 12 fantastic women speakers for exciting talks on web development, JavaScript, tech culture and career development.
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Using Containers Responsibly
Melissa McKay will explore the different tools available for packaging software into containers and how to use them efficiently and securely.
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Interview with Brian Rinaldi
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Moar Serverless!! 2022
Moar Serverless is a 1-day conference exploring how real-world applications are built leveraging serverless.
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Interview with Peter Cooper
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The Truth About GitHub Copilot
Rizèl Scarlett will share how she believes is GitHub Copilot's biggest value is in helping you level up your software engineering career.
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Interview with Gift Egwuenu
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Jamstack and Databases?!
In this session, Taylor Barnett will show how relational databases are still important and relevant to today's Jamstack applications.
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Interview with Suze Shardlow
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Mission Impossible: Browser Testing with Cypress
Bekah Hawrot Weigel will show us how to get started using Cypress to build and run automated browser tests.
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Interview with Kelly More
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Getting Started with the Svelte Framework
In this session, Brittney Postma will walk you through how to get started building JavaScript web applications using Svelte.
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A Developer's Guide to Successful Speaking
Oscar Santolalla will share tips and guidance on what makes a great session and how to get started speaking at tech conferences.
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Interview with PJ Hagerty
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An Introduction to Containers with Docker
In this session, Shy Ruparel of Docker will give you all the details you need to get started creating containers using Docker.
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Interview with Jen Looper
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The Rise of the Developer Community
Bryan Robinson will explain how ideas around developer community have evolved and how we can best optimize our efforts at building developer communities.
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The Ultimate WordPress CI/CD Pipeline
Maciek Palmowski will show you the ideal setup for everything from setting up a Wordpress site in Git to deploying it to production
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Building Better Development Teams Virtually
Jessica Cregg explores how we can better organize how remote teams work and collaborate by taking lessons from video games.
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Modeling Application Logic Visually
In this session, David Khourshid will how state machines and statecharts can help developers make even the most complex of app logic clear.
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TheJam.dev 2022
TheJam.dev is a 2-day virtual conference focused on building real-world applications using the Jamstack.
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Managing Remote State in React
Jarel Fryer shows how React Query library can simplify managing remote state in React web and native applications.
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What It Takes to Build a Developer Platform
Learn the lessons of building a developer platform from Romaric Philogène. He'll share how he and his team built Qovery, both from a technical and business sense.
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Releasing in Secret with Feature Flags
Kathleen McMahon will show how using feature flags can allow a developer to launch an entire site rebrand in secret!
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Stateful Serverless
Leon Stigter explains why statefuless is important and how to leverage stateful patterns in your serverless applications.
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Astro from the Ground Up
Despite being new, Astro is already changing the game for building Jamstack applications with its focus on deliverying better performance through less JavaScript. Cassidy Williams shows you how to get started.
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The Future of HTML Controls
In this session, Stephanie Stimac, Program Manager for Developer Experiences on Microsoft Edge, will talk about the history of native form controls and some proposals being considered to improve them.
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An Ideal WordPress Development and Deployment Workflow
Nate Finch covers everything you need to know about building and deploying Wordpress in a headless/static ecosystem.
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Working with Documents on the Web
Raymond Camden will show us how to manage documents as PDFs on the web like a pro.
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Moar Serverless!! 2021
Moar Serverless is a 1-day conference exploring how real-world applications are built leveraging serverless.
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Better Video on the Web
Adaptive Bitrate Streaming is a video delivery technique that adjusts the quality of a video stream in real time according to detected bandwidth and CPU capacity.
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Databases Made Easy
Rob Sutter shows how new algorithms enable databases that provide consistency, relations, scale, distribution, and speed without sacrificing the developer experience.
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Getting Traction with GitHub Actions
Brian Douglas walks through how you can leverage action packed workflows to supercharge your repos on GitHub by building them with containers to run arbitrary code, run CI, and even automate portions of your developer workflow.
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4 Trends to Watch in Backend Development
Monarch Wadia looks at how serverless platforms, powerful APIs, subscription-based developer tools, and one-stop-shop cloud hosts are changing backend development.
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Design Eye for the Developer
Tracy Osborn shows developers how to train their design eye so that they can feel more confident picking out good and bad design.
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The Evolution of Jamstack
The definition of Jamstack is evolving quickly and in this free session, Ishan Anand will look at what is driving this change and share a unifying theory of what Jamstack is.
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Decoupling Frontends and Backends with GraphQL
Anant Jhingran will explore whether GraphQL can bridge the divide between the backend and frontend developers by meeting the needs of both.
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The State of Modern Ecommerce
Francois Lanthier Nadeau will explore monolithic, Jamstack, and headless commerce and how to pick your e-commerce stack.
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Deploying Your First Kubernetes Cluster
Dave Nugent will walk through how to architect and deploy a machine learning application to a Kubernetes cluster.
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Supercharge JavaScript with WebAssembly
In this session, Tamas Piros will show how you can leverage WebAssembly to extend the capabilities of the browser and JavaScript.
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Personalizing the Jamstack
Adam Lamarre will explore a solution to adding personalization to a Jamstack site.
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The Case for Web Accessibility
Obinna Ekwuno makes the case for prioritizing web accessibility based upon our sense of self and of empathy.
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TheJam.dev 2021
TheJam.dev is a 2-day virtual conference focused on building real-world applications using the Jamstack.
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Introduction to Redis for Data
Simon Prickett explores what Redis is, why developers like it so much, and when to use its unique capabilities.
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The Developer's Pandemic Survival Guide
Dawn Parzych talks about dealing with remote work and Peter McKee covers how to deal with burnout.
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Getting Started with GraphQL
Daniel Phiri introduces GraphQL concepts and how to utilize them in building a web application.
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Jamstack 101: Getting Started with Eleventy
Joel Varty will show you how to get started building Jamstack sites using JavaScript and Eleventy.
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Jamstack 101: Using Next.js with Vercel
Joel Varty will show how to get started using Next.js to create Jamstack websites using React.
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Build a Smart Slack Bot in Node.js
Dave Nugent will walk you through a hands-on workshop building a Slack bot using Node.js.
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Jamstack 101: Using Gatsby with Netlify
Joel Varty will show how to get started using Gatsby to create blazing fast websites using the Jamstack.
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Build a Virtual Agent in JavaScript
Dave Nugent will demonstrate how to build a smart agent using natural language processing.
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Getting Started with the DOM
Edidiong Asikpo explains the DOM, it’s tree-like structure, and how to target and manipulate it.
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The Power of YES Against Imposter Syndrome
Hiro Nishimura will share how saying "yes" to opportunities can help overcome the fear associated with imposter syndrome.
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How Machine Learning Works
Matt Dupree will walk through how gradient descent can be used to form predictions in a machine learning models.
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Scaling a Live Battle Royale Game With No Budget
Em Lazer-Walker shares the trials and tribulations of building a multiplayer game on the web and how to ultimately overcome them.
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Introduction to Apache CouchDB
A hands-on virtual meetup with Apache CouchDB, a NoSQL database, with Upkar Lidder of IBM.
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Moving from Native Mobile to Web Development
TJ VanToll explains the things he learned when he returned to web development after spending years deep in mobile app development.
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Building Web Applications with Vue.js
A hands-on workshop for anyone interested in getting started with the Vue JavaScript framework featuring Raymond Camden.
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Getting Started with Kubernetes Using OpenShift
A hands-on virtual workshop on enterprise application deployment, scaling, and management using Kubernetes.
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JAMstack FTW
Gift Egwuenu shows how to use the Gridsome static site generator and Vue.js to build JAMstack web applications.
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Falling in Love with the Command Line and GitHub CLI
Andrea Griffiths shares some useful tips, ticks and tools that will supercharge your CLI experience.
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Get Started with Serverless Using OpenWhisk
A free, hands-on workshop featuring Upkar Lidder of IBM who will walk you through building three serverless applications using the open source Apache OpenWhisk platform.
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Demystifying PWAs
Lee Warrick will offer an introduction to PWAs and show you what you need to know to start building one.
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Getting Started with Serverless
Upkar Lidder of IBM Developer will introduce the concept of serverless, practical use cases and the key concepts that you need to know to get started.
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Flashback Conference
Flashback Conference is a 2-day front-end web development focused conference in Orlando, FL
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Improving Website Performance
Henri Helvetica looks at the rules that have guided us in web performance for the last decade and how they have evolved.
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Is Visual Development the Future?
Amanda Loftis explores the impact of visual development tools on web development.
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Understanding Machine Learning
Jen Looper explores the possibilities and limitations of machine learning and natural language processing.
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Building IoT Apps with Azure & Particle
Paul DeCarlo and Brandon Satrom show how to build IoT applications using Particle devices and Azure IoT Hub and IoT Central for cloud intelligence.
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A Guide to Professional Networking for Developers
Wesley Faulkner shares advice on how to be successful at professional networking as a developer.
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Sextech: The Good, the Bad & the Bias
Alison Faulk gives an overview of the field of sextech and why it isn't what you may imagine.
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Exploring Blazor
A look at how Blazor lets you develop front-end web apps using C# with Jeremy Likness.
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Why DevRel Matters
A discussion of the importance of the practice of developer relations by Mary Thengvall.
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Exploring Mixed Reality
Ayşegül Yönet takes us through virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality.
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Serverless Go!
Hands-on training with Johnny Boursiquot covers how to build scalable serverless applications with golang.
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Dealing with Perfectionism, Imposter Syndrome & Anxiety
Jo Franchetti discusses how to understand your fears and learn to be kind to yourself.
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JavaScript for Enterprise Development
JavaScript is enterprise ready - Rizchel Dayao and Simon MacDonald show how.
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Has Web Development Become Difficult?
Jory Burson and Raymond Camden explore whether we've made web development difficult to learn.
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Going Great with Go
Building serverless and data-driven applications with the Go programming language.
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The Future of Web Payments
A deep dive into the new browser Payment Request and Payment Handler APIs
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Ethics in Software Engineering
This month we're not discussing how we build it, but should we.
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Building IoT Apps: From Device to Cloud and Back Again
Brandon Satrom from Particle and Burke Holland from Microsoft will lead you through the IoT stack.
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Bots, IoT and AI, Oh My!
The ways that we interact with devices and the internet keeps changing.
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Tools for the Modern Web Developer
A look at some tools that can improve your development process.
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Modern Web Development with the JAMStack
Phil Hawksworth of Netlify will show how to get started with the JAMStack.
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Improving Your Apps - Performance and Debugging
New technologies like serverless and bots are changing the face of development.
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The Future of Development
New technologies like serverless and bots are changing the face of development.
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Oh No You Didn’t: Conflict Management in Today’s Tech Industry
Strategies and techniques to resolve conflicts in the workplace.
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IoT for Fun and Profit
Simple and practical ways for getting started in IoT - from basic electronics to smart home integration
