Putting Service Workers to Work

A service worker is a worker running between your clients' browsers and your site's origin that can intercept requests. They can be extremely powerful both in the browser and/or on a proxy, but some developers are unaware service workers even exist, or overlook their value. Let's go over some popular use cases of how service workers can dramatically improve your site's performance and add functionality that would normally require toying with complicated back-end services.

# About the Speaker

Victoria Bernard has worked on the front line of Cloudflare as a Support Engineer for two years now and recently moved to the Cloudflare Apps team. She graduated from UCLA with an Electrical Engineering degree where she fell in love with programming. Connecting her passions for working with people and tech, she's worked at Intel, Texas Instruments, eBay and even a small startup in a variety of roles from support and sales to developer and CTO.

# Lightning Talks

Intro to Elasticsearch - by Hugo Martinez. Elasticsearch is an amazing framework for implementing custom search engines, but it is not the simplest tool to dive into. Hugo will give a lightning intro to Elastic, along with a bunch of tips and tricks for optimizing it that he learned the hard way.

Using a Screen Reader to Test - by Robert DeLuca. Accessibility testing tools can only catch the low-hanging, easy bugs. It’s very common to pass your a11y linter but still have a 100% broken app -- you need to use a screen reader to properly test your web app. In this short talk Robert will introduce VoiceOver, the screen reader that ships with all Apple products. As an added bonus May 17th is Global Accessibility Awareness Day! http://globalaccessibilityawarenessday.org/

# News From the Bleeding Edge

Brian (https://twitter.com/bmoeskau) will start us off with the crowd favorite "News from the Bleeding Edge" segment, in which we'll discuss all the latest and greatest news in browsers and web app development.

# Food and Drinks Sponsor: Cloudflare

Thank you to this month's premiere sponsor, Cloudflare (https://www.cloudflare.com). Serving > 10% of the world's Internet traffic, Cloudflare speeds up and protects millions of websites, APIs, SaaS services, and other properties. Setting up Cloudflare to boost and protect your site is simple, and free -- give it a try! They are also always looking for great developers, and have a growing presence here in Austin as well. Thanks Cloudflare!

# Can't Make it in Person?

• Our events are live-streamed -- watch here:
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# Parking

Street parking is no longer free on Wednesdays, so you should park in the Omni garage, directly under Capital Factory (enter from Brazos) for a flat fee of $5. Don't forget to ask for a parking validation card before you leave! For complete parking options see https://www.capitalfactory.com/parking