Life after Redux + Durable Serverless Functions (feat. Roy Derks, Chris Noring)

Roy Derks (SwitchBay, Amsterdam) will talk about state management without Redux with Context and Hooks, Chris Noring (Microsoft Cloud Developer Advocate) about durable long running stateful serverless functions.

(Open doors 6.30pm, talks start at 7pm.)

1. Durable, Long running, stateful Serverless functions (Chris Noring, Microsoft, Cloud Developer Advocate)

Serverless functions typically have a lifetime of about a minute and do not persist state across calls - Chris is going to give a short intro to serverless functions in general and will then talk talk about long running, stateful serverless functions running on Microsoft Azure Cloud Services.

2. Life after Redux: Handling State-Management in React with Context and Hooks (Roy Derks)

With the introduction of React 16.8, Hooks became part of the official release. Together with the previously revamped Context API, it allows you to handle state-management in a declarative way. But how does this compare to existing state-management solutions like Redux?