Schedule

• 8:30 am

  Breakfast & sponsor exhibits

  Join us for coffee, tea, plus a wide selection of food including frittatas, quiche, fresh fruit, and whole grains! Come and chat with our 15 exciting sponsors who are exhibiting this year. Their booths are staffed by senior software engineers. Come learn about what they’re building, what problems they can solve for you and your team, and maybe even make a new friend!

• 

  10:00 am

  Welcome & Introduction

  Anjana Vakil

  Settle in for the welcome address by our Master of Ceremonies, Anjana Vakil

• 

  10:05 am

  Keynote: the State of Serverless

  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. In this session, we’ll take a brief look at the origins of serverless and how it’s evolved into its current form. Then we’ll explore how companies are leveraging serverless, the tools and processes they’re using to do so, and the architectural transformations that are changing the way we build software.

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  10:35 am

  Panel: The future of Jamstack & Serverless

  Matt Biilmann, Brian LeRoux, and Jeremy Daly

  Serverless came on the scene in 2014 with AWS’s creation of the Lambda Function, and the Jamstack was introduced by Netlify in 2015 as a more prescriptive architectural paradigm that leverages pre-built markup, APIs, and JavaScript to build websites that are faster & more performant. But a lot has happened in the years since, and the last two years in particular. Does pre-rendered static markup served on the CDN actually hinder our performance in certain situations? Does server-rendered code make more sense in certain situations over statically-rendered content and client-side JavaScript? Is the term “serverless” itself too limiting and vague? In this panel, Serverless & Jamstack expert Rob Sutter of Fauna will moderate a discussion with 3 pioneers & leaders in the world of Jamstack & Serverless to discuss the future of these architectures and patterns.

• 11:45 - 1:30pm

  Lunch

  Grab lunch in the upper lounge by the Silver sponsors and take a seat at one of the picnic tables shaded by the beautiful canopy of trees!

• 1:00 - 1:30pm

  Lunch & Learn

  Hungry for more content? Come learn from the Hasura team in this 30-minute mini workshop! Speaker and abstract coming soon.

• 

  1:35 pm

  I built a Serverless Backend and you can too

  Farrah Campbell

  Using Serverless reduces time spent managing infrastructure and provides developers more time to focus on code. In this session, I will talk about why front end developers should care about serverless and how it gives front end-focused teams the superpower to build a scalable back end for their applications without all the overhead of managing infrastructures. Along the way we will discuss pitfalls and best practices to help you get a jump start on developing without servers.

• 

  2:00 pm

  State Machines on the Edge

  Erik Rasmussen

  Modeling business logic with state machines has numerous benefits, from eliminating bugs caused by impossible states to visualizing the logic to communicate with non-technical shareholders to simply communicating user flow between technical colleagues. In this talk, I'm going to demonstrate, via live coding, how to combine the strengths of Remix and XState to create a checkout flow entirely on the backend. No. JavaScript. Required.

• 2:25 - 3:00pm

  Break

  Discuss the afternoon's topics with your fellow attendees, speakers, and visit the sponsor booths!

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  3:05 pm

  Building data-driven APIs at the edge

  Rob Sutter

  Talk abstract coming soon

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  3:30 pm

  What I Have Learned Scaling Serverless First at Liberty Mutual

  Kristi Perreault

  Serverless first is a growing initiative, but what exactly does this look like in enterprise? How do we scale serverless for thousands of developers? As a sr software engineer for serverless enablement, I will share my unique perspective on how to get started with a serverless team. I will discuss what worked well for us, including pattern development, our support model, enabling constraints, building a serverless community, and educating our tech leads. We will review what could be improved, including day 2 pattern usage, cloud education & experimentation, resource provisioning, and gaining buy in from tech leaders. Lastly, attendees will get a glimpse of what's to come, and where we're headed next.

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  3:55 pm

  Building a Massively Scalable and Performant Jamstack App in Minutes

  Tejas Kumar

  Thanks to the incredible amount of developer tooling available today, building apps has been simplified with tools like `npx create`–but how do we scale them on the Jamstack? This talk explores technologies that enable massive scale while allowing us to focus on the apps themselves without getting distracted by replication.

• 4:20 - 5:00pm

  Open networking

  Chat with your fellow attendees & make plans for the offsite afterparty or dinner!

• 5:00 pm

  Doors Close

  That's a wrap! See you at the offiste afterparty!

• 5:00 - 8:30pm

  Offsite Afterparty!

  Join us at the Graduate Berkeley hotel lobby for food, drinks, conversation and networking!