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 Developers Need to Know About JWTs

Dan Moore will show you what JWTs are, how they work and everything you need to know to use them properly in your applications

  • Dan Moore
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Open Source and Advocacy with Rizel Scarlett

Erin and Brian are joined by Rizel Scarlett, a developer advocate at GitHub, who'll discuss her path into devrel and working as an advocate for open source communities.

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What The Federated Content? with Bryan Robinson

The modern website has become an art of composition. It's a rarity that a website will only pull content from a single source these days. Sean and Bryan discuss the challenges and solutions to composable content.

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Trust and Ethics in the Workplace

Vitaly Sharovatov will discuss how trust and ethics relate to our careers as software engineers and how fostering them can create more satisfying and productive work.

  • Vitaly Sharovatov
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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.

  • Austin Gil
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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.

  • Michael Dowden
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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.

  • Alex Patterson
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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

  • Brian Rinaldi
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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.

  • Tiffany Janzen
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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.

  • Liam Bigelow
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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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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.

  • James Q. Quick
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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.

  • Amara Metu
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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.

  • Melissa McKay
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Moar Serverless!! 2022

Moar Serverless is a 1-day conference exploring how real-world applications are built leveraging serverless.

  • Brian Rinaldi
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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.

  • Rizèl Scarlett
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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.

  • Taylor Barnett
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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.

  • Oscar Santolalla
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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.

  • Bryan Robinson
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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

  • Maciek Palmowski
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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.

  • David Khourshid
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TheJam.dev 2022

TheJam.dev is a 2-day virtual conference focused on building real-world applications using the Jamstack.

  • Bård Farstad
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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.

  • Jarel Fryer
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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.

  • Romaric Philogène
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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!

  • Kathleen McMahon
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Stateful Serverless

Leon Stigter explains why statefuless is important and how to leverage stateful patterns in your serverless applications.

  • Leon Stigter
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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.

  • Cassidy Williams
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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.

  • Stephanie Stimac
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Moar Serverless!! 2021

Moar Serverless is a 1-day conference exploring how real-world applications are built leveraging serverless.

  • Brian Rinaldi
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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.

  • Tessa Mero
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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.

  • Rob Sutter
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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.

  • Brian Douglas
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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.

  • Monarch Wadia
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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.

  • Tracy Osborn
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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.

  • Ishan Anand
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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.

  • Francois Lanthier Nadeau
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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.

  • Tamas Piros
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Personalizing the Jamstack

Adam Lamarre will explore a solution to adding personalization to a Jamstack site.

  • Adam Lamarre
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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.

  • Obinna Ekwuno
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TheJam.dev 2021

TheJam.dev is a 2-day virtual conference focused on building real-world applications using the Jamstack.

  • Brian Rinaldi
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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.

  • Simon Prickett
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Getting Started with GraphQL

Daniel Phiri introduces GraphQL concepts and how to utilize them in building a web application.

  • Daniel Phiri
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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.

  • Edidiong Asikpo
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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.

  • Matt Dupree
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Introduction to Apache CouchDB

A hands-on virtual meetup with Apache CouchDB, a NoSQL database, with Upkar Lidder of IBM.

  • Upkar Lidder
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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.

  • Raymond Camden
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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.

  • Gift Egwuenu
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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.

  • Upkar Lidder
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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.

  • Lee Warrick
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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.

  • Upkar Lidder
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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.

  • Henri Helvetica
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Understanding Machine Learning

Jen Looper explores the possibilities and limitations of machine learning and natural language processing.

  • Jen Looper
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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.

  • Brandon Satrom
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Exploring Blazor

A look at how Blazor lets you develop front-end web apps using C# with Jeremy Likness.

  • Jeremy Likness
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Why DevRel Matters

A discussion of the importance of the practice of developer relations by Mary Thengvall.

  • Mary Thengvall
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An Introduction to Vue

A gentle introduction to the Vue.js framework by Raymond Camden.

  • Raymond Camden
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Exploring Mixed Reality

Ayşegül Yönet takes us through virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality.

  • Ayşegül Yönet
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A Chatbot Crash Course

Sebastian Witalec covers the fundamentals of building a chatbot.

  • Sebastian Witalec
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Serverless Go!

Hands-on training with Johnny Boursiquot covers how to build scalable serverless applications with golang.

  • Johnny Boursiquot
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Going Great with Go

Building serverless and data-driven applications with the Go programming language.

  • Johnny Boursiquot
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The Future of Web Payments

A deep dive into the new browser Payment Request and Payment Handler APIs

  • Robert Wozniak
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Bots, IoT and AI, Oh My!

The ways that we interact with devices and the internet keeps changing.

  • Tomomi Imura
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KnowJS 2018

Lean JavaScript fundamentals through hands-on, online training.

  • Kyle Simpson
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Developing Success

Learn the skills it takes to become a better developer.

  • Alyssa Nicoll
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The Future of Development

New technologies like serverless and bots are changing the face of development.

  • Brian Leroux
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Going Serverless

Serverless is more than just a buzzword - learn why.

  • Burke Holland
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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

  • Brandon Satrom