JHB:Rapidly fire up apps with Firebase /Single point failure/ Coding challenges

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· Welcome (start 16h30)

· Lightning talk (start 16h35) - 10min - Matt Van Der Westhuizen

· Session 1 (start 16h50) - 20 min - Johann du Toit

· Session 2 (start 17h15) - 40min - Badi Sudhakaran

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Title: Coding challenges and AI

Local initiatives to help motivate and upskill developers in problem solving, and emerging concepts.

Facilitator: Matt Van Der Westhuizen

Matt is currently fulfilling the role of a Technical Lead at Entelect where he designs and builds custom solutions for various clients. He has extensive experience in Java web application development. He has a passion for JavaScript technologies and open source communities. In his free time he enjoys dabbling in game development.

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Title: Single point of failure: What would happen if Google fails to check passwords for a day

Single points of failure are dangerous and to drive this concept home, join me as we walk down a fictional story that will look at a world where Google forgot to check passwords for a day.

Having a bit of fun along the way, with ideas on how the events will unfold and how people would react. Hopefully you'll walk away from the talk determined to finally go setup that database replication you've been putting off.

Facilitator: Johann du Toit

Johann is the co-Founder and Tech Lead of Passmarked, where most of his attention lies. Hails from Cape Town where his daily shot of caffeine and development happen. First and Current Google Developer Expert in Africa so always happy to answer questions and help brainstorm new architecture over coffee.

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Title: Rapidly fire up apps with Firebase

Building extraordinary user experience requires a database that is fast, scalable, supported by a world-class infrastructure that allows for clean code and needs less coding. Firebase provides just that – it is Google’s full stack NoSQL cloud platform that allows developers to build extraordinary realtime mobile and web apps.

In this session, Badi will take the audience through a brief introduction to Firebase followed by a live demo of building a real-world application using Firebase’s JavaScript SDK. The demo will showcase key features of the platform including realtime data synchronization, user authentication and session management, aiming to provide developers with a broad overview, yet with enough depth to quickly get up and running with Firebase for their current and future mobile and web projects.

Facilitator: Badi Sudhakaran

Badi is a developer with over 14 years of experience as a technologist and is currently based in Johannesburg, where he works as a tech lead for IQ Business, focusing on growing African businesses by solving problems and finding new and better ways of doing things.

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