Software Sessions

Federico describes how he creates understandable and stable backends for web applications.

Noah discusses leaving the corporate world, starting a mobile app agency, and building a startup centered around on-demand labor

Daniel discusses which AWS services web developers should use and his thoughts on the culture and future of Amazon

Ben Orenstein reflects on a decade of programming, teaching, conference speaking, and his latest role as the CEO of Tuple.

Kyle Drake discusses what GeoCities was, why it failed, the technical and legal challenges of creating its spiritual successor Neocities, and how he's working to preserve and curate sites from the old web.

Jack Ellis shares his experience rewriting Fathom Analytics and migrating to AWS serverless infrastructure using Laravel Vapor.

Vincent Prouillet talks about his experience building the Zola static site generator and reflects back on five years of work with Rust.

Daniel Corbett discusses how load balancers such as HAProxy are used to improve application scalability, reliability, and security.

Cassidy walks us through her career and gives us insight on choosing jobs, quitting them, and focusing on what's important to you. We also discuss keeping track of her many ideas, teaching workshops at React Training, why Amazon was a poor fit, and much more.

Samuel Williams explains the difference between concurrency and parallelism, the dangers of writing multi-threaded code, how languages like Node, Go, and Erlang safely handle parallelism, and how to build scalable systems safely.