It’s been roughly a week since we held the first edition of the Future.Works Tech Conference. In 2020, this was the first time that we decided to create an event focused on specific technologies. It was a new experience for us but we believe it went quite well.
The two programming languages that were the focus of the conference are Java & JavaScript.
We managed to get a cool lineup of speakers for both days with a broad range of topics and insights about these two. Let’s take a look at what we’ve learned?
1st Day — Java
On December 9, we started the conference with our eyes on Java. The keynote speaker of the day was Venkat Subramaniam, Founder @ Agile Developer, Inc. His presentation was focused on Java Functional Programming Idioms. It was a keynote based on a demo, and Venkat went through the session by showcasing how we can improve our coding style if we look at it as idioms. It was a great comparison between what we see in our native languages and the programming languages we use.
On that day, we would like to also point out also the talks from Mary Grygleski and Nicolas Frankel, together with the Live Coding Session by Edward Ciggaar. Mary took us through an introductory talk to Reactive Java, while Nicolas shared 3 easy improvements you can make in your Microservices Architecture. To close the day, Edward invited everyone to join him on a Live Coding session where you could learn how to Go Serverless with Java & Quarkus.
This first day was sponsored by Autovision and we recommend you to check their current job opportunities.
2nd Day — JavaScript
For the second day, on December 10, we shifted our attention to the JavaScript ecosystem. The day ended up having “Performance” as a guiding topic through several sessions, either to improve your code performance, your project performance or even your own personal developer performance.
The keynote of this second day was brought to you by Christian Heilmann, a Principal Software Development Engineer @ Microsoft. Christian focused his speech on how you can be a better developer if you focus on using the right tools, the right way. You’ll be a better developer if you simplify the complexity of your development process by enhancing it through the utilization of the tools that exist to make your life easier. Learn to trust the tools and to share responsibility with them, you cannot know everything and you won’t ever know it!
We would also like to point out Mark Thompson, Cassie Evans, Alex Lakatos, and Stefan Judis. Mark brought us a really energetic talk about Angular and its Supercharged command line interface that can change your developer experience. Cassie, in her talk, brought us what was probably the most creative session of the whole conference. She showcased why and how you should use SVG to develop creative web animations. Alex was one of the two sessions where we saw the “no slides” approach. In the beginning of the session he asked the audience for a website, and he showed us how to use the browser dev tools to completely debug the performance of websites. Last but not least, Stefan Judis had the opportunity to close the event. He used the opportunity to discuss with us if the direction web development is going is the right one or not. Should it be this hard to keep up with the state of web technology nowadays? We’ll leave you this question to think about.
We had a blast on the whole conference, and we also have to thank OLX Group for being the daily sponsor of the second day.
Finally, we want to thank our remaining sponsors Volkswagen Digital Solutions, Fidel, tb.lx by Daimler Trucks & Buses, and Springer Nature. The event wouldn’t be possible without them and you can check their current available positions on the links.
In the next couple of days we’ll be uploading the recordings to our YouTube Channel, so keep your eyes open for that in case you missed something.
We can’t wait for the next edition!
Happy holidays,
Pedro Saraiva
Event Producer @ Future.Works & Landing.Jobs
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