Island Architecture: The Monthly Dev #35

**The Monthly Dev brings world-class speakers to empower the developers' community, once a month. Made with ❤️ by daily.dev.**

Agenda:
We're excited to announce our next event in this series with an awesome lineup of speakers! See details below.

Opening remarks by Francesco Ciulla (Developer Advocate at daily.dev)
https://twitter.com/FrancescoCiull4

Ben Holmes, Full-time open source developer, Astro, Whiteboardist, Speaker, Streamer

https://twitter.com/BHolmesDev
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bholmesdev/

Title: Eventbrite from scratch with Astro + Cloudflare Workers

Abstract: Cloudflare Workers have silently gone from a weird Node alternative to a fully-featured platform for SQLite distribution, fast response times, and even AI. Pair this with Astro, and we have everything to build a web app! Let's build an event sign-up page from scratch to see how these tools fit together.

Misko Hevery, CTO at Builder.io, creator of Qwik, Angular, AngularJS, co-creator of KarmaJS
https://twitter.com/mhevery
https://www.linkedin.com/in/misko-hevery-3883b1/

Title: "Optimizing Application Startup with Islands Architecture: Balancing Hydration Costs and Inter-Island Communication"

Abstract: Islands architecture is a form of divide and conquer for the cost of Hydration. By breaking things into Islands, the application can start up faster since only some islands need to be woken up. But with islands come new constraints. Inter-island communication is now something you need to think about.

Kathleen McMahon, Engineer • Design Systems Consultant
https://twitter.com/resource11
https://www.linkedin.com/in/resource11/

Title: Bye-bye, weeds! Digital Gardening with Astro & MDX

Abstract: Has your once-thriving digital garden become overgrown with weeds? Has your framework of choice changed from a suite of landscaping tools to a warehouse of industrial farming equipment? What if you're three versions behind? Do you upgrade and continue with complexity, or choose a new stack that meets your static site needs?

This talk will teach you to weed out site complexity with Astro and MDX. Pair this with accessibility best practices, and breathe new life into your digital garden.

Starting time: November 28th, 8AM PT (SF) / 11AM (NYC)