The QCon New York 2014 Conference

A/B Testing + Continuous Delivery = Everyday Product Launches by Nell Thomas

Brian Rinaldi (the creator of Flippin’ Awesome) invited me to speaker at the QCon New York 2014 conference at the Beyond JavaScript track which he hosted.

QCon New York 2014 by InfoQ
QCon New York 2014 by InfoQ

My talk was on CoffeeScript and what is good about it. Here are the slides from my CoffeeScript: The Good Parts presentation.

QCon badge design prominently showing first names
QCon badge design prominently showing first names

The conference itself impressed me with the superb level of organization (look at their badge design), and high number of sessions and their quality.

QCon New York 2014
QCon New York 2014

Major takes aways include:

  • Hybrid mobile apps are successful and use stacks such as: Cordova+Ionic+Angular+SASS (Salesforce.com) and Backbone+React (Belly)
  • Dev managers starting to use badges to motivate developers as oppose to traditional managerial ladder promotions (Spotify)
  • ECMAScript 6 is going to be awesome but coming only next year
  • Breaking monolithic apps into microservices is the hottest discussion topic in enterprise teams
  • Developers deploy code 30 time a day and even dogs can deploy changes with Continuous Delivery (Etsy)
Creating Native-Like Mobile Apps with AngularJS, Ionic and Cordova by Christophe Coenraets
Creating Native-Like Mobile Apps with AngularJS, Ionic and Cordova by Christophe Coenraets

Author: Azat

Techies, entrepreneur, 20+ years in tech/IT/software/web development expert: NodeJS, JavaScript, MongoDB, Ruby on Rails, PHP, SQL, HTML, CSS. 500 Startups (batch Fall 2011) alumnus. http://azat.co http://github.com/azat-co

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