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SUMMARY:Fullstack: Optimising JS for scale and performance with Roku
DESCRIPTION:  \nDetails\nWe are here again this time @ Roku TV in Manchester to explore their engineering culture. \nAgenda (timings are approximate)\n18:00 Welcome networking\, drinks\n18:15 Welcome: Paul Kim/Anish Shah/Steven Keng\n18:30 Timothy Huertas: Taming Roku’s Web Component Library\n18:50 Cefn Hoile: Watchable.dev – A Minimal Watchable Store\n19:10 Refreshments\, drinks\, pizza\n19:20 Filipe Ferreira: Sorry-cypress: Parallelising Cypress Tests in CI/CD\n19:40 Kornel Martyin: Techniques for Optimising React Rendering Perf\n20:00 Discussions and close \nTimothy Huertas\nTim jokes he started building single page apps before Ajax was Ajax; back when the only browser with an asynchronous HTTP request/response object was IE 5.5. Tim has an affinity for the front end\, but has worked up and down the stack and is an advocate for pragmatic automated regression. \nCefn Hoile\nCefn has spent decades sculpting open source hardware and software\, and helping others do the same. Full Stack Devops at the BBC\, Snyk and Roku have catalyzed a passion for legible software frameworks\, helping engineers to thrive with minimum magic. Loves: strict-typing\, inspiring docs\, just-enough testing. Cefn balances his work with his life single-parenting\, sailing and flying paragliders. \nFilipe Ferreira\nA talented software engineer who’s a force to be reckoned with in the world of coding! His skills in developing high-performance\, scalable applications for web and mobile platforms are simply mind-blowing! But that’s not all – Filipe is also an expert on the latest trends and best practices in software development. He’s always on the cutting edge of technology\, sharing his insights and experiences with anyone who’s willing to learn. Filipe is an avid open source contributor! He’s constantly giving back to the community\, making significant contributions to a number of popular projects that have helped countless developers around the world. \nKornel Martyin\nKornel has grown up playing PC games and dreaming about eventually being able to make one some day. The first mistake he made on this journey was to find the “Page Source” function on a browser and believing that it was program code that he sees. It is too late for him now\, he got stuck with web technologies. Some of his hobbies includes more coding in C++\, OpenGL and WebGL\, tinkering with mostly digital\, electronics\, 3D printing and modelling\, obviously he’s a total nerd\, even if he won’t admit it. He used to make music but can’t find time for it anymore and occasionally also likes to spend a good holiday abroad\, exploring the world.
URL:https://biometrictalent.com/event/fullstack-optimising-js-for-scale-and-performance-with-roku/
LOCATION:3 Symphony Park\, Manchester\, M1 7FS\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230601T180000
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SUMMARY:Full-Stack Engineering @ Flutter
DESCRIPTION:Details\nWe are back this time @ Flutter Entertainment in Leeds to explore their full-stack engineering culture. \nAgenda (timings are approximate)\n18:00 Welcome networking\, pizza\, drinks\n18:30 Jamie Munro: Radical Code Reviews\n18:50 Andy Lawler: React Native – Write once\, use everywhere\n19:10 Refreshments\n19:20 Rich McIntyre: JavaScript All The Things\n19:40 Discussions and close \nJamie Munro\nEngineering Manager working at Sky Betting and Gaming. I joined Sky Bet back in 2011 as a football trader before finding a passion for technology and cross-training to become a software engineer working on our inhouse trading platforms. I mostly worked on backend\, cloud-native microservices as an engineer and then Lead Engineer before moving across our frontend tribes where I’m learning more about our customer-facing apps and website whilst leading and managing people. Synopsis: Radical Code Reviews. A clickbait title borrowed from Radical Candour by Kim Scott; I’ll relate Kim’s book to how we review code in the workplace\, and how we can learn from it to challenge our colleagues\, give better feedback and be more compassionate when we review code. \nRadical Code Reviews\nRadical Code Reviews. A clickbait title borrowed from Radical Candour by Kim Scott; I’ll relate Kim’s book to how we review code in the workplace\, and how we can learn from it to challenge our colleagues\, give better feedback and be more compassionate when we review code. \nAndy Lawler\nMobile Engineer working at Sky Betting and Gaming. At SBG I’ve worked on the Sky Bet app using Swift and also Objective-C but also worked using React Native along with other Web technologies to build multi-platform apps. \nReact Native: Write once\, use everywhere\nThis talk will look at how we can use React Native and some other tools/frameworks to write once for multiple platforms. We will look at Expo and how it helps us build apps\, React Native Web and also tools such as Expo-Router which is file based routing for native. The aim of this talk is to show you that it’s possible to use new technologies to write elegant solutions which work for all of your consumers. \nRich McIntyre\nCurrently Chief Engineer at BJSS has been writing JavaScript since before it was cool\, he is passionate about tech and doing engineering ‘right’ across the full-stack. He often reminisces on his earlier ‘Ruby’ days and has had experience of engineering over many years at organisations such as NHS-D\, BBC and Sky. \nJavaScript All The Things\nYou can write JavaScript for everything nowadays\, but should you? What are the pros and cons of writing JS everywhere and should you consider this approach on your projects. In this talk we will explore how JS performs at each tier and the stack and hear how it holds out when put at pace.
URL:https://biometrictalent.com/event/full-stack-engineering-flutter/
LOCATION:4 Wellington Place\, Floor 7\, 4 Wellington Place\, Leeds\, LS1 4AP\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Yorkshire FullStack X Cinch Takeover in Manchester
DESCRIPTION:Details\nWe are excited to visit the Cinch offices in Manchester to hear about how they approach Full Stack development. \nWe have 3 exciting talks + the usual panel debates that you would normally expect from a Yorkshire FullStack event! \nSpeaker: Farhana Khan\nTitle: How to Unleash the DevOps Superpowers\nSynopsis: Farhana will be focusing on the Three Ways of DevOps and culture. She will also be drawing on her experience of being on the graduate programme at cinch and what she’s learnt along the way. \nSpeaker: James Adcock\nTitle: Low Code Workflows with AWS Step Functions\nSynopsis: James will be explaining how we can use AWS Step Functions to simplify the orchestration of serverless applications. \nSpeaker: Elliot Evans\nTitle: Release the code!\nSynopsis: Elliot’s talk will be focusing on the changing landscape of delivering code to production and in particular what we’ve learnt in defining cinch’s release strategy. \nApprox Schedule: \n18:00 Doors Open\, Drinks\, Pizza\, Chat\n18:30 Talk 1\n18:50 Talk 2\n19:10 Break\, grab another drink\n19:25 Talk 3\n19:45 Panel discussion and debate\n20:00 Home time or pub
URL:https://biometrictalent.com/event/yorkshire-fullstack-x-cinch-takeover-in-manchester/
LOCATION:Cinch Offices\, 5th Floor\, Arkwright House\, Parsonage Gardens\, Manchester\, M3 2LF\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Securing\, deploying and scaling apps with sensitive data
DESCRIPTION:Details\nJoin us for this ‘security’ special\, graciously hosted by Infinity Works along with guests from Hashicorp. \nThis event is for anyone who is interested in full-stack software engineering (or on the topic at hand). We cover all aspects of designing\, developing and deploying software. \nIt will be primarily be an in person event\, with a Zoom webinar link sent out later to those who are unable to make it. \nAgenda \n18:00 Pizza and drinks (alcoholic and non-alcoholic) \n18:30 Talk 1: “Hard lessons learnt from a data breach”\nBenjamin Kay – Senior Consultant (Infinity Works) \n18:45 Talk 2: – “Managing cloud deployment secrets with HashiCorp Terraform and Vault”\nJared Holgate – Senior Architect (HashiCorp) \n19:00 Break and drinks \n19:15 Talk 3: “Scaling NHS Login”\nJulian Walls – Principal Consultant (Infinity Works) \n19:45 Closing remarks and mingle\n20:00 Close \nThis is an inclusive event where we all respect and welcome one another regardless of age\, ability\, gender identity\, sexuality\, religion etc.
URL:https://biometrictalent.com/event/securing-deploying-and-scaling-apps-with-sensitive-data/
LOCATION:Infinity Works\, part of Accenture\, 78 Wellington Street\, Leeds\, LS1 2EQ\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Going Cloud Native - Hybrid!
DESCRIPTION:Details\n🚨We are back as part of Leeds Digital Festival🚨 \nWhat does Cloud Native really mean? What are the benefits? What are some of the patterns that make the most sense? And what cool stuff can we play with right now. \nAt Yorkshire FullStack for this special Leeds Digital Event\, Chris Wood from Amazon Web services will explain how to best architect cloud native applications and what are the common pitfalls. \nChris has a wealth of development and architectural experience in a range of industries. He is an expert on cloud technologies and currently specialises in helping Amazon web services customers innovate with machine learning and IoT\, with LoRaWAN of particular interest. \nWe will also have a panel discussion where we can debate and dive deeper in answering questions about what cool solutions are out there for us to get stuck in.
URL:https://biometrictalent.com/event/going-cloud-native-hybrid/
LOCATION:Online Event
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SUMMARY:Luca Mezzalira - JS Module Federation
DESCRIPTION:Come and hear JS architecture expert Luca Mezzalira talk about how module federation has been a missing part of the JS architecture puzzle until now. After this exciting and potentially ground-breaking talk please come along with your questions as Rich sits down with him for a fireside chat.
URL:https://biometrictalent.com/event/luca-mezzalira-js-module-federation/
LOCATION:Online Event
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SUMMARY:GraphQL should you? or shouldn't you? Hear from real life experiences.
DESCRIPTION:Details\nTopic: GraphQL should you? or shouldn’t you? Hear from real life experiences. \nOur Speaker Panel: \nRich McIntyre\nChief Engineer at BJSS \nJon Watson\nPrincipal Engineer at Sky \nBen Styles\nSenior Software Engineer at Rohea Oy \nOmri Suleiman\nSenior Developer at BJSS \nAgenda: \nLightning talk and demo by Omri Suleiman followed by a 40-minute discussion where we will ask the panel about their experiences with GraphQL. \nThey will also be asked some questions based on the main topic by our host Rich McIntyre\, where they will give their own input in what could be a lively debate.
URL:https://biometrictalent.com/event/graphql-should-you-or-shouldnt-you-hear-from-real-life-experiences/
LOCATION:Online Event
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SUMMARY:Should everything be written in JavaScript or not?
DESCRIPTION:Topic: Should everything be written in JavaScript or not? \nOur Speaker Panel: \nRich McIntyre\nChief Engineer at BJSS \nJeff Watkins\nChief Engineer at AND Digital \nSophia Chambers-Dixon\nLead Engineer at Egress Software \nKatie Fenn\nSenior Developer at Financial Times\, formerly Canonical\, Monzo\, NPM inc \nAgenda: \nLightning talk by Rich McIntyre followed by a 40-minute discussion where we will ask the panel about their experiences with JS and other languages\, that have brought projects they have worked on big wins or huge amounts of pain. \nThey will also be asked some questions based on the main topic by our host Rich McIntyre\, where they will give their own input in what could be a lively debate.
URL:https://biometrictalent.com/event/should-everything-be-written-in-javascript-or-not/
LOCATION:Online Event
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SUMMARY:Cloud platforms\, devops and the full stack engineer - how much do you care?
DESCRIPTION:Details\nTopic: ‘Cloud Platforms\, DevOps\, and the full-stack engineer – how much do you care?’ \nOur Speaker Panel: \nCarl Austin (BJSS – UK CTO)\nTanja Lichtensteiger (Sky Betting and Gaming – Engineering Manager)\nGwen Diagram (Sonocent – Engineering Manager) \nAgenda: \nA 40-minute discussion where we will ask the panel about their view on DevOps culture and Cloud Platforms. \nWhat are the best Cloud Platforms and approaches for full-stack development teams? Do full-stack engineers also need to have intricate knowledge of the infrastructure? \nThese questions and more based on the main topic by our host Rich McIntyre will be covered\, where they will give their own input in what could be a lively debate.
URL:https://biometrictalent.com/event/cloud-platforms-devops-and-the-full-stack-engineer-how-much-do-you-care/
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SUMMARY:Is it still cool to be writing Isomorphic/Universal JavaScript Apps?
DESCRIPTION:Details\nTopic: Is it still cool to be writing Isomorphic/Universal JavaScript Apps? \nOur Speaker Panel: \nJoe Thornton\nUser Interface Capability Lead at BJSS \nAlex Fenton\nSenior Software Engineer at Asura Financial Technology \nGrace Zarczynska\nJavaScript Developer at Sky \nBen Styles\nFull Stack Web & App Developer at DAZN \nAgenda: \nLightning talk by Joe Thornton followed by a 40-minute discussion where we will ask the panel about some of their favourite toolings. They will also be asked some questions based on the main topic by our host Rich McIntyre\, where they will give their own input in what could be a lively debate.
URL:https://biometrictalent.com/event/is-it-still-cool-to-be-writing-isomorphic-universal-javascript-apps/
LOCATION:Online Event
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