October: Rethinking the backend with webtasks
Detalles
For October, our meetup will be held on Thursday the 12th of October (rather than our normal Tuesday) so our speaker can attend.
Just Eat (https://tech.just-eat.com/) has kindly offered to host us this month, and will also provide pizza and drinks!
Agenda:
18:00: Meet and greet
18:30: Rethinking the backend with webtasks, by Daniel Lobo
20:00: Pub
Rethinking the backend with webtasks
You are writing a mobile or HTML5 web application that needs just a little bit of a backend. Maybe you want to access MongoDB, send an SMS, or an e-mail. Do you really need to host your own Node.js service to run this small snippet of backend logic? In this talk I will take a hard look at the role of the backend in modern applications. I will introduce the concept of a Webtask - a lightweight representation of backend logic that can safely be embedded in a client application. I will show how you can use modern container technologies based on CoreOS and Docker to build a generic runtime for securely executing Webtasks directly from a mobile or HTML5 application. You don’t need a backend to run backend code.
Daniel Lobo
Developer Success Engineering, making the Internet safer @auth0. Software engineering during day and night! Ex - @Google Ambassador @SABF @TEDXITBA. F/OSS advocate. Running. Nyctophilic.
HalfStack Conf 2017
We recommend getting your HalfStack Conf 2017 ticket now before they sell out!
Save the date for the third annual
HalfStack Conf (http://halfstackconf.com/)
, 17th of November 2017! Early Bird tickets are sold out, but we still have regular tickets available at
https://ti.to/halfstack/halfstack-2017/
. Most of the speakers have been announced. We're including more this year due to some excellent sponsors to make this year's event even better than last year!
Other events of note
Here are some other great events we're excited to attend and/or speak at in the near future:
• ReactiveConf (https://reactiveconf.com/) (Bratislava, 25th-27th of October), save 10% with ReactiveForHalfStack promo code
• FullFrontal (https://2017.ffconf.org/) (Brighton, 9th or 10th of November)
• Frontend NE 2018 (https://2018.frontendne.co.uk/) (Newcastle, 5th of April, 2018)
• FullStack 2018 (https://skillsmatter.com/conferences/9815-fullstack-2018-the-conference-on-javascript-node-and-internet-of-things) (London, 11th-13th of July, 2018)