Agenda

Unleashing Team Potential: Microfrontends for Web Development at scale

Web Stage — 30 minutes Web

In an era of expanding tech teams and increasing complexity, our traditional monolithic web application architecture can become a roadblock to progress.  This talk will share our transformative journey from a single team of 3-5 people to a powerhouse of 6 teams and 40 individuals, and the unique challenges we faced with this growth.Each team desired full independence - in decision-making, in product development, and in release cycles. Bound by a common codebase, changes were often left as ‘work in progress’, stuck somewhere in the process, causing frustration and delay. Our solution was a radical shift in our development approach: the implementation of microfrontends.This talk will explore how this new approach allowed teams to become true owners of their processes, with smaller, isolated codebases bringing all the benefits of less code. We achieved faster time-to-market, reduced surface area for bugs, and gave each team control over their codebase. The result was a code that created a semantic unity, much easier for engineers to understand and work with.Join us as we delve into the world of microfrontends, demonstrating how this paradigm can boost productivity, simplify development, and revolutionize the way larger teams operate. Read More...

• Bruno Kovačić [Managing director & CTO — Happening]

Dev environment for Open Source. In one click.

Web Stage — 45 minutes Web Open Source

Modern tech stack is amazing, but it tends to overcomplicate things. In this talk, we will go throught the process we implemented at daily.dev to make our Open Source project scale in the proper way, letting people to recreate the whole dev environment with a single click.

• Francesco Ciulla [Developer Advocate — daily.dev]

Beyond Jack of All Trades: Gaining Niche Expertise as a Generalist Web Developer

Web Stage — 30 minutes Web

How do you stand out in a population where everybody knows the same frameworks, codes in the same programming languages, delivers the same REST APIs and applies the same programming patterns as you do?  In this talk, we will describe a roadmap that will start from our current, well known landscape of React, Angular, Django, Rails, Express, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes and will take us to the lesser known mystical worlds of HEIC image decoders, EXIF metadata forensics and macOS internals. Finally, we will look into ways to make an impact in the saturated landscape of open source projects. No prior web development experience is required.
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• Andrei Cioara [Senior Software Engineer — Independent Contractor]

Let’s make development fun again!

Web Stage — 45 minutes Web

Chances are you wanted to become a developer because you wanted to code all day on great products. 
Now you have the fancy developer title, a shiny new laptop, and the office has a ping-pong table 🤷🏻‍♀️… but do you actually get to code this much, or is your time spent on finding documentation , figuring out who owns that API, onboarding your new colleagues and figuring out how to work with the infrastructure? In this session Suzanne will share (and show) four ways how an Internal Developer Portal can help you to actually spend time on coding and shipping. Read More...

• Suzanne Daniels [Developer Relations Lead — Port]

Pay the Web Forward 

Web Stage — 45 minutes Web

Trying to get paid on the Web today, as a creator, is broken and unfair. 
70% of ad spend globally goes to only 2 platforms. Until recently, the Web couldn't natively compete.   A new W3C Standard proposal, Web Monetization, uses the Interledger Protocol to enable developers like you to make money from your work in an open, native, and seamless way. And all that with as little as a single line of code!
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• Alex Lakatos [CTO — Interledger Foundation]

A journey from business requirement to Event Sourcing and CQRS

Web Stage — 30 minutes Web

We’ll embark on a journey of implementing a microservice with Domain-Driven Design, Event Sourcing and CQRS.
It all began with a security requirement within our business – the establishment of an immutable and reliable audit trail for all actions, particularly significant when dealing with financial transactions. Throughout this journey, we encountered numerous challenges, especially considering that we were venturing into new territory with these concepts. We’ll explore some code axamples and uncover the benefits following the implementation and address the ongoing challenges that lie ahead. 
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• Radu Gasler [Lead Software Architect — Verifone]

Back to the Future: A PHP Frontend

Web Stage — 45 minutes PHP Web

Step into my time machine, set the dial, and venture back to the future in a day and age where JavaScript's dominance seems unshakable, yet server-side languages like PHP are making surprising comebacks on the frontend, defying the conventional wisdom of yesteryears.
 It’s not just PHP; every other “traditional backend” language has a contender by now. Things such as Vaadin, Blazor, LiveView or Hotwire. At first glance it appears to be just a detour from the JavaScript-centric future. but there are lessons we need to learn before rejoining the SPA madness parade.
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• Nick Ciolpan [Managing Partner — Graffino]

Building the web inside the web - learning from building the ultimate cloud development platform

Web Stage — 30 minutes Web

• Ioana Chiorean [Engineering Manager — Women In Tech Cluj]