Jen Simmons

We’ve been wrestling with Flexbox for a long time. First, because early implementations kept changing. Then, because it was so buggy. Most often, because we've been trying to force Flexbox to do something it doesn’t want to do — to be CSS Grid. Finally now, in 2021, with the most recent updates to browsers, and widespread support for other layout options, it’s time to rethink our understanding of Flexbox.   What is Flexbox good at? When is it the right choice? How can we learn, understand, and teach Flexbox better — so we don’t have to keep looking it up?!   Jen Simmons will take a fresh look at Flexbox and explain what Flexbox was born to do. Come learn how to be friends with this often misused layout mode.

Rethinking Flexbox

Web Technologies Evangelist

Myles Borins

Keynote

Staff Product Manager, Open Source

Houssein Djirdeh

Developer Advocate

Ali Spittel

There's a lot that goes into building a modern application: the frontend for users, data persistence, user authentication and authorization, business logic, cloud deployment, and much more. The AWS Amplify Admin UI allows users to create and deploy an offline-ready application backend in clicks and then extend it with code, lowering the complexity of fullstack development for frontend and mobile developers. We'll build a fullstack application backed by multiple AWS services including Cognito, Appsync, and S3 in minutes.

Create an Application Backend in Clicks with the Amplify Admin UI

Senior Developer Advocate

Guillermo Rauch

Founder & CEO

Tee Diang

Software Engineer

John Papa

You've built an app and you want it to scale. Do you want CI/CD, custom domains, SSL certificates, APIs, global scale of your static in assets, authentication, and authorization? And whether your favorite web framework is Svelte, Vue, React, Angular or something else entirely, you'll learn how to build a static web app on Azure and go from GitHub repo to global scale.  🔒 SSL & Custom domains 🔑 Authentication/Authorization ⚙️ Automated build/deploy w/ Github Actions 👓 Preview URLs for staging 🌐 Global distribution ⚡️ APIs powered by Azure Functions

Quickly Deploy Your Web App with Scale and Security

Principle Cloud Advocate

Tessa Mero

Quincy Larson

Managing Open Source at Scale

Founder

Emma Bostian

Everything we do, from the way in which we write our emails, to the method in which we provide negative feedback and evaluate performance, governs the performance of our teams. And understanding how culture impacts our efficacy as a team can drastically improve our day-to-day collaboration. In this session you'll learn: How different cultures communicate, How different cultures evaluate performance and give constructive criticism, How different cultures make decisions, How different cultures trust, How different cultures perceive time.

Building High-Performing Cross-Cultural Teams

Brian Douglas

Hampton Lintorn Catlin

Many developers feel pressured to move into people leadership positions to progress in their careers. In this talk, I'll share insights I've gained on people leadership and how it works with the developer mindset, and help you figure out if people leadership is right for you– and what to do if it isn't! We'll talk about traits of a good leader and the psychology required to actually enjoy it!

People Leadership for Developers

CEO & Co-founder

Debbie O'Brien

Head Developer Advocate

Kevin Powell

For the longest time creating adaptive and responsive layouts was a complete nightmare full of floats, hacks, and way too many media queries. It was a struggle that drove people to libraries and toolkits like Bootstrap, Foundation, and others.  Today, more modern solutions such as columns, flexbox, and grid have given us the tools we need to properly control our layouts. Despite that, creating responsive layouts remains a struggle for many front-end developers.  In this talk I will be looking at how the best approach is often to keep it simple, even as layouts get more complex and we have an ever growing gamut of devices, screen sizes, and resolutions to work with. We'll look at leveraging the default behaviors that we start with, as well as simple, reusable approaches that we can use to conquer responsive layouts.

Conquering Responsive Layouts

Educator & Entrepreneur

Danielle Man

GraphQL excites developers because of its ergonomics and ability to let us query data more flexibly in our applications. Developers aren't the only people in organizations who need easy, ergonomic access to data though. In this talk, I will share the outcomes of some user research we did at Apollo on GraphQL accessibility, and I will share my vision for how to use GraphQL to create a single interface for you data, across all your systems, in a way that can be leveraged by designers, product managers, business leaders, etc.

Using GraphQL to make data universally accessible

Engineering Manager

Yan Cui

You get great velocity without sacrificing quality and reliability when you combine Serverless and GraphQL. It’s really the best of both worlds. In this talk, Yan Cui shares his experience of building a new social network for university students in just 4 weeks, using AppSync, Lambda and Algolia.

How we built a social network in 4 weeks with GraphQL and Serverless

Simona Cotin

Cloud Developer Advocate

Georg Link

Open Source Community Health & Metrics

Director of Sales

Mark Erikson

Senior Software Engineer

Cassidy Williams

Principal Developer Experience Engineer

Jeremy Daly

GM of Serverless Cloud

Luciano Ratamero

Senior Python/JS Developer

Maria Lamardo

Senior Accessibility Engineer

Samson Goddy

Growing in Open Source

Co-founder

R. Mark Volkmann

By now I'm sure you have heard of Svelte. But you have already put effort into learning other web frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular. So why should you bother learning one more? Productivity!  Svelte makes so many things easier. This includes HTML templating, scoping CSS to components, managing component state, managing application state, and adding animations. It requires less code than other frameworks to do the same things. Svelte also generates smaller bundle sizes than most frameworks, resulting in apps that load faster in browsers. This talk will demonstrate each of these benefits. By the end you will know whether Svelte deserves more of your attention.

Intro to Svelte: Say Yes to Productivity!

Partner And Principal Software Engineer

Tracy Lee

Have you ever thought about how you can help your team succeed by making your application faster? It's so easy, and quick to learn. This talk will walk through how to easily create a successful roadmap for introducing performance improvements into any development team today.

Learn how to become a beginner expert in web performance

Eric Meyer

Jon Wong

Developer Experience Engineer

Gift Egwuenu

Frontend Engineer

Scott Davis

Gartner estimates that roughly 25% of our computer interactions these days happen with our voice. ("Siri, can you confirm that statistic?") 4 out of its "5 Digital Technology Trends for 2020" -- from Multiexperience Across Devices to Interfaceless Machines to Agent Interfaces to Inclusive Design -- hinge their success on voice interaction.  So, are you ready to help implement the Spoken Revolution? In this talk, Scott Davis (Web Architect and Developer Advocate, ThoughtWorks) will give you a gentle introduction to the basics (Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text), complete with some simple standards-based examples that you can run in any modern browser. You'll also learn how command-driven interfaces work ("Alexa, play some Bob Marley") and how continuous speech recognition can bring live closed captioning to video conferencing.

The Revolution will be Spoken

Web Architect & Developer Advocate

Tan Li Hau

Frontend Developer

Stephanie Eckles

Alex Kyriakidis

How Vite Changes the Game for Vue and Web development by Alex Kyriakidis, co-founder of VueSchool between Vite and VueCLI on.

How Vite Changes the Game for Vue and Web development

Founder & Teacher; Enterprise Consultant

Wes Bos

Engineer & Entrepreneur

Sandy Guberti Ng

Despite growing interest in Svelte, many new developers are hesitant to learn Svelte as their first framework. In this talk, I will share how I started my career with Svelte, how the data team at Teachable, one of the fastest growing edtech startups in the world uses Svelte for our internal data products, and why Svelte just made sense for us.

How Svelte Supercharged My Career

Data Visualization Engineer

Justin Jackson

Lee Robinson

Solutions Architect

Swizec Teller

Amy Hoy

Founder; Co-founder

Henri Helvetica

Developer

Chris DeMars

You, your users, and Alice from Wonderland have something in common. At one point, everyone has fallen into a hole of perplexity, confusion, and sometimes hysterical madness. Unlike Alice, we can navigate ourselves and our users around the chaotic abyss that we call the web. Shipping inaccessible experiences to our users can have unpleasant effects. Being cognizant of all the things that can go wrong and who are potential users are, will take us farther along our journey. In this session we are going to learn about common accessibility violations that surface when we are lackadaisical about the experiences we ship. We will cover semantic markup, alt attributes and images, color contrast, and more. Attendees will walk away able to identify these problem areas in their codebases and learning techniques, tools, and best practices to keep our users happy and not drive them mad.

Common Accessibility Pitfalls: Climbing out, when you fall in.

Andy Bell

CUBE CSS is a CSS methodology that’s orientated towards simplicity, pragmatism and consistency. It’s designed to work with the medium that you’re working in—often the browser—rather than against it.  In this talk, we deep-dive into how it works, but most importantly why it exists and how it can help you to write simpler, more resilient CSS.

CUBE CSS

Consultant designer and Educator

Shruti Kapoor

GraphQL is an open source query language for APIs. It allows clients to request a structure of data, and get an exact representation of that structure back without any extra data. This helps to prevent sending excessive payloads of data to the client. This feature of GraphQL makes it a lucrative option for implementing a unified API that integrates two or more downstream GraphQL or non-GraphQL APIs. In cases where a client may need to interface with an enterprise’s API, a unified GraphQL API can provide a single endpoint that abstracts away any unnecessary data yet curates results from multiple APIs, thereby making it easy to evolve multiple APIs over time. In this talk, we will integrate two existing APIs to build a GraphQL API.

Building a Unified GraphQL API

Faraz Ahmad

Christian Nwamba

Steph Smith

With all that 2020 has given us, it’s clear that remote work is here to stay. As more of the population shifts towards distributed teams, we must look past widely cited positive features and consider how organizations need to adjust in order to maximize the benefits of this new normal, while minimizing the downsides. The "copy and paste" approach that many companies have fallen into is not enough. This talk will start with the fundamentals of remote work, while drawing on 3 incredible books and their frameworks: Give and Take, Algorithms to Live By, and the Four Tendencies.

Thinking Past the Office: Designing Resilient Remote Teams

Head of Trends

Uri Goldschtein (Urigo)

During our work with many different clients from all shapes and sizes, The Guild had to come up with all kinds of innovative solutions to help customers achieve the most out of GraphQL and help adopt it more easily. During that talk I will mention how you could use GraphQL in places you thought it wasn’t possible, share open source tools to help you and provide new perspectives about why GraphQL is a great technology.

GraphQL Anywhere - Our Journey With GraphQL Mesh and Schema Stitching

Member/Founder

Maggie Johnson-Pint

Senior Software Engineering Lead

Kene Udeze

The job of designing a product is often attributed solely to the person with the “designer” job title. This is a bit like assuming the director of a movie takes care of the script, lighting, and soundtrack all by themselves.   This talk will explore how designers can open up themselves to professionals from adjacent disciplines like copywriting, development, and product management to build superior products.

It takes a Village.

UX Designer

Ben Hong

Senior DX Engineer

Hiro Nishimura

Technical docs are really, really hard. We’ve all read “bad” ones. Perhaps we’ve been lucky enough to encounter some amazing ones that make us want to share them with the world. Over the past decade, I’ve transitioned from a Special Education teacher to IT Support Engineer to SysAdmin to Technical Instructor and Writer. And writing effective documentation catered to a specific audience base has been a challenge I grapple with daily. In this talk, we’ll discuss how a realization to “write documentation with the audience in mind” has brought me from helpdesk engineer to AWS Community Hero in a few short years.

Writing Technical Documentation with the user in mind

Content Strategist

Homer Gaines

When it comes to building or designing UIs that target visual disabilities, we tend to target the extremes such as sighted vs. total blindness. But visual disabilities aren't binary. There's a range of circumstances that can affect someone's vision. This talk dives into various peer-reviewed studies that shine a light on how we address navigation related to users with low vision. We'll look at what low vision and how Accessible User Experience Design (AUXD) plays a part in improving the user's journey.

Building for Low Vision

Senior UI Engineer

Rob Walling

Join software developer and serial entrepreneur Rob Walling as he shares specific advice from 15 years of building startups and advising startup founders. He walks through things you should consider if you want to launch a profitable side project or a full-fledged software company in 2021.

Bootstrapping a Startup in 2021: Advice from the Trenches

Miriam Suzanne

Over the last decade Object-Oriented & Responsive design have become the norm – with tools like Flexbox, Grid, intrinsic sizing, and aspect-ratio giving us even more layout control. CSS has always been designed for a responsive web, but that goal-post can shift over time. New CSS proposals like Container Queries, Cascade Layers, Scoped Styles, and Nesting are all aimed at improving the way we write responsive components and design systems. These features will help bring CSS up-to-speed with the latest patterns in modern web design. Let’s see how they work!

Container Queries & The Future of CSS

John Samuel

In this eye-opening talk, entrepreneur and disability advocate John Samuel shares why technology companies must broaden their idea of what it means to be truly inclusive. John shares his incredible journey as a CEO, husband, and father who happens to be blind and is creating digital accessibility in a world tethered to technology. 

The Idea of Belonging in a Connected and Diverse World

Co-founder & CEO

Rikki Schulte

Staff Engineer

Natalia Tepluhina

With the Vue 3 Composition API we got a powerful tool to abstract the logic. But how to make your composables really flexible? In this talk we will try to livecode a composition function to match a set of different APIs selected by a spinning wheel.

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