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Tech talks about Metaverse in October (most watched)

MeetupFeed — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 13:44:59 +0000

We’ve brought you the first ever roundup about the Metaverse…yay! These talks are definitely worthy of your attention if your goal is to obtain as much knowledge as you can about the Metaverse. We will touch topics like sport creation, monetization, meta quest store and much more. Enjoy! https://blog.meetupfeed.io/metaverse-october-2022/

The Metaverse is Here to Stay – What does that Mean? | Kristin Tam & Carly Evans & Adesuwa Ehioghae
The Metaverse is a network of interconnected experiences and applications, devices and products, tools and infrastructure that will soon impact every industry all over the world. Accenture is poised to lead in this field, whether it be consumer or employee experience, as they have utilized their time wisely to prepare for what is coming and they have moved quickly to be best positioned to leverage that future. They are looking forward to sharing how they view this journey, where they believe it’s going, talk about open questions, and how they engage their people teams to understand and learn more about the Metaverse.

Building Bridges to the Metaverse | Andy Shanton & Alex Hopmann
UGC creation platforms Crayta and Meta Horizon Worlds will soon be connected in ways that will demonstrate the potential of a metaverse of experiences with shared values. Leads from both teams will discuss this journey and show how it’s possible for two products on different platforms to connect meaningfully and add value without compromising either of them.

Creating a Sport for the Metaverse | Max Weisel
The ball is in your court! Hear from Max Weisel, founder of Normal, as he breaks down his latest VR esport title: Nock. An archery game that’s designed to be a sport of the metaverse. Learn about his early iterations on building the next VR esport and the behind-the-scenes prototypes it took to get to release on the Meta Quest Store. Max will share how he and his team foster a community of players to grow their thriving community. You’ll also get a peek at what’s next as they expand the game into a professional sport.

Meta Quest Store & Monetization | Drew Venegas & Yuriy Zhovtobryukh & Andrea Russell
In this session, you’ll learn about how you can use the Meta Quest Store to monetize with subscriptions and in-app purchases. We’ll review subscriptions best practices, showing platform toolkits to drive user acquisition and reduce churn. We’ll also cover sales and pricing bundles and what’s coming next on our roadmap.

Embracing a New Identity: Integrating Meta Avatars in Already Established Product | Jolyon Webb
This session explains the thinking and problem solving that allowed the UGC game platform Crayta, to welcome Meta Avatars into its ecosystem. Takeaways include insights into how another platform thinks about avatar appeal, and examples of technical problem solving to allow a user’s avatar to travel between platforms.

Building for the Metaverse on the Web | Jacob Rossi & Josh Sach & Karim Toubba
Learn about new and improved ways for web developers to build for the metaverse. We’ll share what’s new for Meta Quest Browser and cover new tools and capabilities for PWA developers. Plus some of the latest apps coming to the Store. We’ll share how we’re bringing Mixed Reality capabilities to WebXR. Finally, we’ll reveal Meta’s first-ever immersive VR experience for the web and how developers can learn from our experience.

A Metaverse Beyond Gaming | Kevin Chan & Alex Swartsel & Sara Lisa Vogl
Immersive technologies are increasingly enabling new opportunities for schools and organizations to serve their communities and their mission. Learn how AR and VR are changing practices in education, job skilling, building communities, and taking on global challenges.

Building Virtual Objects in Meta Spark Studio | Lucia Tahan & Rodrigo Castiel
What are virtual objects (VOs) and what role do they play in augmented reality? Learn more about what they are and how to create them in Meta Spark Studio.

Agile Meetups to Level Up Your Game (full list)

MeetupFeed — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 13:40:38 +0000

You hear about Agile all the time but did you already dive deep into the subject of how to truly utilize it? If not, here’s your chance. We’ve hand selected the top six meetup videos that are revolving around this topic. Enjoy!

40 Agile Methods in 40 Minutes | Craig Smith
With 66% of the world using Scrum as their predominant Agile method, this session will open up your eyes to the many other Agile methods and frameworks in the world today. For many, Agile is a toolbox of potential methods, practices and techniques, and like any good toolbox it is often more about using the right tool for the problem that will result in meaningful results. So join Craig on this rapid journey to look at the universe of Agile approaches and add some extra tools into your toolkit.

Improving Performance of Teams Using Statistical Analysis | Naresh Jain & Sriram Narayan
Large-scale software development generates a lot of data when teams use tools like Jira or Azure Devops. We could analyze the data with statistical tools and techniques in order to understand how to improve delivery performance. Naresh and Sriram have been attempting this at one of their clients. In this talk, they’ll share the techniques they used and the lessons they have learnt so far.

Agile Recruitment: The Missing Step In Your Transformation | Jakub Jurkiewicz
If we want to build agile organizations we need to recruit with agility in mind! If we care about people and interactions, we should create space for people to shine and where people can collaborate. What if the candidate does not fit any of our boxes? How could we respond to that and embrace this opportunity? What about hiring for culture-fit? Or is culture-add even more important? What could happen if we redesign our recruitment processes looking through the lenses of agile values and principles? In this talk we will explore how agility could help us shift the conversations in the recruitment processes, and how we could start recruiting for culture-add and hire people that will accelerate our agile transformations.

Spurring Growth with an Agile Culture | Ramkumar Venkatesa
Startups have been and will be a big factor in powering India to be a $5 trillion economy. Startups have a need to grow the customer base, product offerings, scale their technology and grow the teams. Succeeding in all of these parameters in a rapidly evolving environment is what makes startups successful. Agility enables startups to conquer these challenges. An agile culture is very important for successful Agility. The 3 pillars of building such a culture are alignment of goals, decentralized decisioning to attain those goals and a continuous feedback loop on decisions’ outcomes.

Don’t Bulldoze the Swamp for Agile | Steve Adolph
Large-scale agile transformations do not have a good track record with reportedly up to 70% falling far short of their goals. From a biological perspective, many agile transformations are like taking a bulldozer to a wild, diverse ecosystem. While we may create a consistent Way of Working, the transformation bulldozer often results in a monoculture, a weakened ecosystem that cannot adapt and innovate. Of course, to work together, especially at scale, we cannot just let our enterprise ecosystem grow wild because we need consistency to collaborate and coordinate. We can resolve this dilemma by taking a page from Socio-Technical systems for a more sustainable transformation. We introduce five principles for the “Greening” of the Agile Transformation that sustains and grows our capability to innovate while creating needed alignment and consistency.

Agile Transformation or Just Another Restructure | Terry Haayema
Is your Agile transformation just another restructure? Is everyone being shuffled around into Tribes? Villages? Crews? Are people reporting horizontally into Chapters? Is there talk of how we need to go faster? Were decisions made behind closed doors? Was the focus on structure as if that will change everything?

Consultants engaged who created lots of PowerPoint presentations with lovely motherhood statements about how our people are our greatest asset and the new structure will break down silos and allow us to go faster? Then it’s announced, teams are shuffled around into squads, tribes, chapters, etc.. As the transformation builds up speed, everyone gets some training and there is a massive amount of change management comms, presentations, and events. Big up front plans,… Big bang change,… Heavy Change Management,… Does that sound like a waterfall? In this talk we’ll discuss a better way by actually being agile about the way we approach agile!

Top 5 Azure Meetups in October

MeetupFeed — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 13:36:44 +0000

In the spotlight this October: Azure tech talks. You truly were engaged last month when it came to this topic so we decided to do a collection of the best meetups about Azure. Deep dive into containers, architectures, downtime upgrades and more. Enjoy!
https://blog.meetupfeed.io/azure-october-2022/

Azure and Containers, the Tale of the Two Inseparable Friends | Yaser Adel Mehraban
If you ask someone how to run a container, they will most probably answer AKS or Azure Kubernetes Services. But is that the only way? In this talk we’re going to bust that myth and go through all the ways you can run a container in Azure and leverage the limitless potential which is in front of you. You don’t need to be an expert in working with containers, all you need to bring is an eagerness to learn.

Event Driven Architectures | Graeme Foster
Ever wondered how to build event-driven architectures on Azure, and what pitfalls to look out for? Event-driven architectures have become very popular in recent times. They help reduce the complexity in building modern microservices based systems by providing patterns to avoid tight coupling, decrease latencies, and establish efficient and reliable communications. Based on our practical experience working with multiple large customers, in this session, we will dive into these architectures. We will introduce concepts including CQRS, Event Sourcing, Sagas, etc., and debunk a few myths leaving you prepared for building modern applications on Azure.

10 Tips to Rocking as an Azure Architect | Adam Cogan
Adam will share what you need to know to become a NASA rocket scientist…. Sorry, Azure Architect. It is easy to sign into the Azure portal, click around and create a bunch of services. The aim is to avoid ClickOps wherever possible. Developers love to follow best practices that help them build great enterprise software. As Cloud Architects, we should include practices for how to design enterprise solutions well, choose the right services and be cognizant of your cloud spend. Adam Cogan will walk through the 10 things you need to know to become a great Azure Cloud Architect.

Demystifying Azure AD, JWTs & OIDC | Graeme Foster
OIDC and OAuth2 have been the goto for authentication and authorisation Azure Active Directory for years now. But when things start to go wrong, it can all become a bit of a black-box with no obvious place to look for help. In this live-code session Graeme will uncover some common errors you can see when setting up applications to work with AAD, and dive that next level down to give you an understanding of why they occur, and how to fix them. By the end of the session you’ll understand:

-What an AAD Application is
-What an AAD Service Principal is
-MSAL vs ADAL
-The difference between AAD V1 and V2 endpoints
-How AAD represents OAuth2 scopes
-Why scopes aren’t permissions, and how roles can help

Stretching for Zero Downtime Upgrades| Sven Malvik
Imagine you navigate in the Azure portal and click AKS upgrade; 2 minutes later your entire online presence is inaccessible to your users. This presentation is discussing Vipps’ journey of managing infrastructure in Azure. In this session, we will walk you through the design decisions of our Azure infrastructure during the last years. We will start by discussing the flaws and challenges of our early architecture before we introduce our current setup of immutable infrastructure and why we are still not happy. Finally, you will learn why and how we favor a multi-cluster architecture in Azure.

7 React Must-know Best Practices

MeetupFeed — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 09:12:04 +0000

Would you like to take a deep dive into React materials and uncover all the know-how of standing out of the crowd with your expertise? Say no more! We’ve hand-selected the best 7 meetups for you to learn from. Enjoy!

How to Debug React and Node like a Developer
As developers we have to communicate and ask for help in a different way than others. Here we talk about how to debug your react and Node application and what to communicate when talking at others.

Handling Data at Scale | Tejas Kumar
Handling Data at Scale for React Developers. It is very difficult to scale modern web applications to millions of concurrent users. Oftentimes, we’ve got to provision and consider in-memory Key/Value stores, search engines, analytics engines, and databases, all while preserving traceability through the layers. This talk expands on the technical details of web apps at this scale, and offers a simpler way to achieve the same effect without the technical hassle.

Routing in React 18 and Beyond | Delba De Oliveira
In this talk, we’ll explore the past, present and future of routing in front-end applications and discuss how new features in React and Next.js can help us architect more performant and feature-rich applications.

TDD in React | Nik Krimm
Test-Driven Development (TDD) involves writing a failing test before writing the code to make it pass. TDD encourages simple designs and inspires confidence, as well as guiding you to more modular, flexible code. How does this technique apply to React, and what tooling is available? We’ll write a simple feature, test-first to demonstrate.

Browser Tools to Aid Development and Debugging | Nik Krimm
React provides rich browser plugins that aid in the inspection, debugging and development of React components. This talk will provide an overview of the tools, and how to use them to improve your daily workflow.

Improving Performance using UseMemo and UseCallback | Bruce Smith
One often missed area in React is performance. Sometimes we have to massage data, process inputs or make calculations on the fly; these are all normal things to do in a React application, but if done carelessly they can cause a performance nightmare. We’ll go through a scenario where we look into the UseMemo hook to help us avoid expensive operations from running unnecessarily, and then we’ll implement UseCallback to avoid re-rendering child components.

Reducing Bugs in Your Codebase | Darshita Chaturvedi
This is a novel and original look into some of the unexpected behaviors in a React codebase and the anti-patterns that cause them. They discovered them while building a new full-stack web development framework on top of React. They published some of our learnings and received overwhelmingly positive reactions from developers worldwide such as: 1. Selected as the top article of the week by various newsletters 2. Developers voluntarily translated the article into many languages such as South Korean and Russian 3. Reached 100K+ developers with comments such as “Changed my day!”

First-rate Python Meetups in September

MeetupFeed — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 09:08:51 +0000

The ace of meetups were definitely Python talks this September, so naturally we had to bring you the 5 leading videos. Get the knack of programming Python and become a pro with an ease with the help of experts from all over the world.

Probabilistic Python: An Introduction to Bayesian Modeling with PyM | Chris Fonnesbeck
Let’s take a deep dive into Bayesian Modeling. Bayesian statistical methods offer a powerful set of tools to tackle a wide variety of data science problems. In addition, the Bayesian approach generates results that are easy to interpret and automatically account for uncertainty in quantities that we wish to estimate and predict.

How to Make Your Projects More Elegant | Mabel Lee
Testing, linting, type hints, CI/CD are very common in large production projects especially in other languages like JavaScript and Java. However, they prove to be useful even for smaller projects that use Python. Mabel will show you how to use pytest, flake8, black, CI/CD and more to make your Python projects more elegant.
Mabel started her software engineering career as a full-stack engineer at ThoughtWorks using JavaScript. She is now in a machine learning team at Dyson that is developing CNN models for production on edge devices.

Create a Python BI Web Application with a Few Clicks | Huifang Yeo
How long does it take for one to code a BI analytics platform? Using atoti and ipywidget, we will see how we can create a small application that allows us to spin up an BI platform from a single CSV with just a few clicks. Learn more about multidimensional analysis through interactive visualizations and storytelling with atoti dashboards!
Huifang Yeo is a data evangelist with atoti who actively communicates with a growing community about various data analytics use cases. Prior to her current role at ActiveViam, she worked as a Senior Business Analyst and IT Project Manager in a financial institution.

Introducing More of the Python Standard Library | Simon Ward Jones
Python comes with many standard library packages included without any “pip install”! In this beginners tutorial we will go through a few of these with some interactive challenges during the session. Specifically we will dive into pathlib, datetime, collections, itertools and functools and how these can help you.

Creating a Testing Workbench for Computer Vision Projects | Darshita Chaturvedi
Computer Vision projects use libraries such as OpenCV, Matplotlib, etc. to display image or video streams to verify incremental work. However, these libraries are not suitable to display media because the output differs based on the end user’s operating system, package distribution system, etc. By contrast, browsers provide very superior and stable support for IO devices. Until now, it was not possible to utilize browsers to display media using Python (outside IPython like notebooks). In this talk, we will use an open-source full-stack web development framework for Python developers to achieve this objective.

Angular: Top 5 Most Watched Videos in September 2022

MeetupFeed — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 09:06:20 +0000

Angular tech talks were in the spotlight this September with an overwhelming number of videos featuring experts from all over the world. This time we hand selected the top 5 of them for you to pick up all you can. Enjoy!

What is Angular in the Jamstack | Tara Z. Manicsic
Let’s talk about the Jamstack architecture and where Angular fits! Learn what Angular is in the Jamstack, deep dive into pre-rendering, find out all about Static Site Generators and Content Delivery Networks and how Netlify comes into the picture.

Error Handling – Complete Guide (2022) | Dmytro Mezhenskyi
Unfortunately, errors happen in every application which makes error handling one of the most critical parts you have to focus on. Yes, we can’t get rid of errors completely, however, we can react to them and gracefully handle exceptions, improving the user experience in our apps. In this video, Dmytro will share with you different error handling strategies that will help you to solve 80% of possible scenarios that might occur in your applications. You will learn how to handle exceptions that happen in sync and async code, how Angular tracks errors, and how it globally handles it. You will see how errors are being handled by rxjs streams and how to use Angular HTTP_INTERCEPTORS to implement a global strategy for failed HTTP requests.

CanMatch Guard in Angular 14.1 Router (2022) | Dmytro Mezhenskyi
Second round of Dmytro…wow! Angular 14.1 comes with many useful features and in this video, we will have a look at one of them. Let’s talk about a brand-new CanMatch guard in Angular router that can help you to ‘skip’ routes depending on some certain conditions. This is quite different compared to already existing guards and brings even more flexibility to your apps.

Getting Started with Standalone Components| Jessica Janiuk
Join the Angular team’s very own Jessica Janiuk as she guides us through the getting started with the brand new Standalone Components feature.

Bringing Your Angular Web App to Native | Mike Hartington
So, you have a killer app you’ve built and want to take it from your web browser to the App Store. Sure, there are a lot of options here, but most will require you to maintain separate apps for each platform. You want your codebase to be as close as possible across Web, Android, and iOS. Thankfully, with Capacitor, you can take your existing web app and quickly create native iOS and Android apps for distribution on your favorite App Store.

Python: 6 Most Watched Videos in August 2022

MeetupFeed — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 13:28:42 +0000

Python tech talks were high on the list of the most watched videos on MeetupFeed in August. That’s why we decided to hand select the ones our audience fancied the most. In the spotlight: Optimization, Solving Wordle, Hacking, Compiling and A/B Test Analysis.

Optimizing Code | Anna Astori
Have you experienced issues with your Python code while wrangling new data sets and crunching big numbers? Have you wondered what are the places where you could make your Python scripts run faster? In this session, learn options to speed up your data processing operations.

Solving Wordle with Python & Selenium and Then Running it in GitHub Actions | Michael Mintz
In 2022, the Wordle game took over the world by storm. As curious automation engineers, it is our duty to find an automated solution to solve Wordle for us. Michael took on that responsibility and created a working Wordle-solver using Python and Selenium. As a bonus, he got that solution to run in GitHub Actions. In this presentation/demonstration, you’ll learn how all the pieces come together to make this happen.

How to Hack (Legally) | Karen Miller
When it comes to hacking, trainees are at risk of legal implications and developing bad habits. In this talk, Karen aims to provide an overview of best practices and trusted resources available to attendees who wish to develop penetration testing skills safely, with an emphasis on Python.

Compiling Python Programs into Differentially Private Ones | Johan Leduc & Nicolas Grislain
Working with privacy-sensitive data today, whether it is in health-care, insurance or any other industry, is a complex and slow process often involving long manual reviews by compliance teams. The recent development of differential privacy helped standardize what privacy protection means. As such it has the potential to unlock the automation and scaling of data analysis on privacy sensitive data. To help realize this promise, Johan and Nicolas designed and built a framework in which an analyst can write data analysis jobs with common data-science tools and languages: SQL, numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, and have them compiled into differentially private jobs executed remotely on the sensitive data. In this talk, they will describe how a user expresses his job declaratively in python and how his python code is analyzed and compiled, before it is run and a result is eventually returned.

Stats Don’t Have to Be Scary: Automatic A/B Test Analysis| Kristie Wirth
Learn how Kristie’s workplace manages to analyze dozens of concurrent A/B tests with millions of data points! She’ll discuss their previous manual analysis process, some things that have changed, and do a down-to-earth walkthrough of how you too can use Python to automate analyzing your tests.

Understanding Trends Driving the Usage of Python | Rachel Stephens
How does Python fit among programming languages? We’ll start with a zoomed out view of programming language trends and then drill into Python specifically. Our goal is to explore where, why and how Python is being used, and then discuss future opportunities and threats to the language.

Popular React Talks From Last Month

MeetupFeed — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 13:21:30 +0000

React is one of the most popular frameworks used in web development currently. That’s why we thought it would be interesting for you to see the best 7 meetups from last month. Take a deep dive into profiling, building, accessibility, data fetching and design from experts all over the world.

Profiling React Apps like a Pro | Gil Fink
As front-end developers, we strive to build fast and fluid web apps. But how can you profile your React app and find performance problems? In this practical session, we will deep dive into a profiling session to understand how to use your DevTools to solve performance issues.

Build it Beautiful with React | Netta Bondy
You know beautiful code. You know it when you see it. Writing it is a whole other issue. Are there guidelines we can set to make our React code beautiful? Netta is a Senior Front-End developer at Twang, the co-founder of Baot – Israel’s largest community of women in R&D, and a lover of all things JavaScript.

[Accessibility in React | Ran Bar Zikg(https://meetupfeed.io/talk/ran-bar-zik-react-next-22-accessibility-in-react)
Accessibility is not a charity, and it is an important feature to implement in our application. In this session, we will talk about accessibility. What automated tools are we using in popular testing libraries (both unit and e2e) to test react components? How can we mitigate a11y issues, and why should we do that? What is a11y and how it works , a11y unit testing tools, E2E testing tools, a11y with a storybook.

Kiss my App! How to keep it simple and avoid BDD with React | Nir Kaufman
Just because it’s popular doesn’t mean you need to use it! React is simple and focused at its core, but once you dive into the ecosystem you might end up with a stack that makes your system over complex, and hard to maintain. In this session, we will revisit the KISS principles in practice, and learn how we can avoid Buzz Driven Development (BDD).

Powering the Front-end with React, GraphQL and Relay | Martin Artola
Nowadays, fetching and managing data has become the critical pathway of many apps, whether you’re trying to simplify and speed up development or looking for the best user experience. Technologies like React, GraphQL and Relay play a tremendous role in shifting not only the way we build apps but also how we write code. If you’re new to this ecosystem, don’t panic! Martin will share with you some tips and walk through some hands-on examples to show you how easy it is to get started and open a world of possibilities.

Simple Data Fetching with React Query | Daniel Mocan
Data fetching is one of the most common tasks for frontend applications, but it often ends up requiring a lot of code to handle different scenarios. React Query can simplify some of these tasks and even add some extra cool features. Daniel will show you some of the most common use cases, with code examples so you can decide if it is the right tool for you.

Designing High Performance Applications | Sendil Kumar
In his talk, Sendil talks about why web performance matters. Understanding Core Web Vitals, Rendering and making use case decisions.

Career Meetups That Will Blow Your Mind

MeetupFeed — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 13:16:15 +0000

In the times of such uncertainty and job hopping on the job market you have to be sure you make every effort to stand out of the crowd. That’s why we’ve brought you the finest career tech talks in August that will instantly level up your game. Enjoy!

Growing Together: The Impact of Community on Career | Sumayyah Ahmed & Devanshi Modha & Dinorah Tovar
Join us to hear from industry leaders on how contributing to and being visible in the developer community can have a meaningful impact on your career. Supporting your community can take many forms from acting as an organizer, conference speaker, developer mentor or more.

5 Steps to High-Paying Job Offers You Deserve | Katie McIntyre
In this workshop you’ll learn the exact 5 step strategy that 575+ students have used to land dream jobs with companies they admire. So you no longer have to play the apply-and-wait game, waste countless hours applying to jobs, get ghosted by recruiters, or fail to land competitive job offers.

Seven Habits of Highly Successful IT Leaders | Indira Munjuluri
What makes us a successful IT leader? We bring out all those seven habits that Indira thinks make a difference. And we also look at some other general questions in terms of how do we navigate, learn from her career and success story.

You Don’t Have to Be a Manager | Stacy Devino
You are a fabulous Senior Engineer and you love what you do, but you feel stagnated. We have all heard it before: “Why don’t you become a manager?” Moving up the corporate ladder doesn’t mean that you have to move out of a technical role. Advancing past “senior engineer” doesn’t lead you to a crossroad — but to finding yourself in the middle of possibilities. There are many roles in tech that are still “technical” available, and this session will go over some of those options and what is involved in those roles. You will also hear the speaker’s first-hand experience of how you can make those roles your own and how they can differ significantly from one employer to the next.

Document Yourself: A Framework for Career Advancement | Michelle Brenner
The goal of this workshop is to document yourself the way you would document code. You wouldn’t expect someone who wants to use the program you built to read every line of code. Instead, they’re relying on the design documents and doc strings to know how it works. The same is true with your career. This workshop is about making it easy for you to provide overwhelming evidence of your value to the company. When you can show your ROI, it’s much easier to secure that promotion, raise or new job that you deserve.

Leading React & React Native tech talks in July 2022

MeetupFeed — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 15:45:31 +0000

React & React Native enthusiasts gather around! July had lots of interesting meetups for you to learn from. To make things easier, we’ve collected the best eight from hundreds of tech videos. Choose your favorite!

Content Modeling for React Developers | Harshil Agrawal
In today’s world, it’s no surprise that “Content is King”. It helps in telling a story and helping you reach out to more people. Most of the time, developers aren’t the ones managing this content. Hence, modeling content efficiently becomes crucial. Doing it well makes the content delivery process smooth for the team. But how does one go on with modeling content? What are the things that one should take care of? Harshil answered such questions in this talk, and shared his approach to content modeling as a React developer.

Using React Hooks and Capacitor to Access Native Mobile APIs | Thomas Vidas
Using React Hooks & Capacitor to Access Native Mobile APIs Using Capacitor, you can easily create native mobile iOS and Android applications using all of the React web tools you know and love. But how do we access the native APIs? With the @capacitor-community/react-hooks package, we can quickly and easily access native device APIs, like Camera, Filesystem, and Geolocation, using React Hooks!

Routing in React 18 and Beyond | Delba de Oliveira
In this talk, we’ll explore the past, present and future of routing in front-end applications and discuss how new features in React and Next.js can help us architect more performant and feature-rich applications.

5 Years of Building React Table | Tanner Linsley
Let’s dive into the history of React Table and discuss everything it’s taught Tanner (both successes and failures!) since he built the first component-based version 5 years ago. He’ll cover tons of sub-topics including, but not limited to: Headless UI, React Hooks, Advanced TypeScript, Branding & Naming-Things, Build Pipelines, Open Source Software, API Design, React/JavaScript performance and even Framework Agnostic Tooling.

Measuring and Improving React Native Performance | Alexandre Moureaux
The web has several tools to measure performance, but what about React Native devs? Have you ever added some optimization in your code (like a memo here and there) and wondered if it had a real impact on performance? Presenting a Flipper plugin to measure React Native performance, with a concrete case of how we used it to bring our app performance to the top quality.

Web3 for Mass Adoption with Starknet and React Native | Sean Han & Janek Rarht
Why do we need the blockchain? For the first time ever, blockchain allows people to own a piece of the digital asset on the internet. Digital ownership and sovereignty have unlocked new use cases that will enable people to create, trade, and earn value online with unprecedented scale. With StarkNet.js, you can now build scalable web3 mobile Apps that allow your users to participate in this new digital economy.

The Hidden Features from V8 to Boost Your React Native Apps | Kudo Chien
This talk would go through some V8 features like JIT, inspector, WebAssembly, and bytecode caching. These weapons will give developers more choices to develop good apps. Other than that, with Expo config plugins, V8 adoption in an Expo-managed project has never been easier.

Building Cross-Platform Apps with React Native + Next.js | Fernando Rojo
One of the main benefits of using React Native has been the ability to share non-UI code between web applications and mobile applications. In this talk, Fernando focused on how to properly set up a monorepo with shared code and React/React Native apps and how to build and deploy configurations for Expo, Vercel. He also covered architecture choices, authentication flows (same backend API but very different frontend), common problems, and some other issues.

Serverless: Champions of meetups in July

MeetupFeed — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 15:38:35 +0000

July was overloaded with the most crowd-pleasing serverless videos. Take your knowledge to a whole new level with these educational tech meetups. Bury yourself in building apps, infrastructure, persistence and serverless patterns. Until next time!

The Past, Present, and Future| Jeremy Daly
Since the introduction of AWS Lambda in 2014, “serverless” has exploded into a vibrant ecosystem filled with a multitude of frameworks, services, tools, providers, and practices being adopted by startups and enterprises alike. Let’s take a look at the origins and where we are now. Then we’ll explore how companies are leveraging serverless, the evolving tools and processes they’re using to do so, and the emerging architectural patterns that are changing the way we build software.

Building Applications with Infrastructure as Code | Talia Nassi
How do you ensure consistency in your environments? How do you make sure the resources you deploy have the same configurations across different accounts? Infrastructure as code is the answer. In this talk, learn how to develop, debug, and deploy your serverless applications with the command line.

How to Fail at Serverless (Without Even Trying) | Kam Lasater
Serverless is great. Everyone loves it. We’re not always sure serverless loves everyone. Kam wants to share some of the ways he has failed with apps going from local, to deployed, to running with production workloads.

Dealing with Persistence in Applications | Marc Duiker
Serverless means stateless, right? But surely applications need to persist in some state somewhere. What are the right choices for storage solutions that fit a serverless architecture? Join this session to learn about various options in the Azure cloud.

Serverless Patterns Made Simple with Real World Usecases | Sheen Brisalis
Patterns are common in all walks of life. Software architectural patterns are often viewed as complex constructs that are beyond the grasp of many engineers. When mixed with cloud computing and serverless, the perception makes it harder. Textbook-style narratives of serverless patterns often fail to connect with engineers. Sharing a true journey with the community brings authenticity and acts as a great learning platform. In this talk, Sheen will touch upon the experience of working with several applications, associated with a use case that can be easily related to. What better way to equip engineers to be efficient and innovative than sharing the knowledge!

Career meetups: Be second to none

MeetupFeed — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 15:33:01 +0000

Tech Career meetups are always among the most watched videos on MeetupFeed. This time, we’ve hand selected 5 of them for your entertainment. Enjoy!

Learn about the LinkedIn Applications Engineering Technical Screen | Amrita Dasgupta
Amrita Dasgupta works as a Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn. In this session, she shares more about the technical screen for the Applications Engineering track.

Journey from Frontend Engineer to Engineering Manager | Nataliya Pasichnyk
At some point in your career, you wonder where you want to go next. You choose whether to focus on more technical subjects or take the management path. Natalia joined her company as a Junior Frontend Engineer and within three years became an Engineering Manager. You will learn what steps have brought her closer to this and what can help you in choosing this path.

Interviewing in Tech: Tips and Tricks | Mincy George & Serena Fritsch & Alex Mikhailova & Sarah Cooper
Let’s learn from some amazing experts from the tech world (Spotify, Intercom, Quadrature) who will share their knowledge about the interview process in the UK so that you could improve your chances of getting hired as a software engineer here. These are some of the questions that will be discussed during the event:

What are the biggest red flags in a candidate’s resume?
How should an engineer prepare for a technical interview?
What mistakes do you see engineers typically make during technical interviews?
How do you assess if someone is a good cultural fit for your company?

The Visible Developer: Why You Shouldn’t Blend In | Heather Downing
Ever wonder how some technical people are recognized and promoted quicker than others with the same skill set? Yes, there is a formula to make it more likely. We will explore the habits of well known developers outside of their coding chops, to identify what additionally allowed them to become a trusted and known voice in their environment. This approach can be a benefit to you, no matter how junior or senior you are.

How Can Robots (RPA) Help You and Your Career? | Cynthia Libby
We’ve all had tasks where we had to do the same steps over and over again. For example, transferring data between systems that aren’t integrated. Boredom quickly sets in and we start making mistakes. We’d love to figure out a way to make those tasks quicker – or better yet go away completely. Cut/paste and macros help – but only go so far. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) does this and quite a bit more. Not with little flying robots but with smart software. This session will give you an understanding of RPA and what it can do, both as a tool to make your repetitive tasks easier and as a possible career opportunity.