Technology

Modern Patterns in Modular Software Architectures

modular software architecture

Modular architecture patterns have been around for a long time, longer than most of us even! the pipe-dream to create a fully modular software system is still alive! What have we learned over the years and across different practice? and how JavaScript & npm play a role in shaping a modern view to an age old problem!

Presented at: Node Day NYC - 2019 — FinJS New York - 2019

Always Forward with Dan Shaw

frameworks backends api bff

Are we still BFFs? The Backend for Frontends model helped paved the way way for mass Node.js adoption and has defined much of full-stack development for the past few years. Now that divergent, monolithic platforms have been replaced by full-stack API backed services powered by Node.js, teams are finding the BFF model too limiting. We’ll explore alternative approaches? Does the BFF still have a place in our architectural toolkit? Is GraphQL the best answer?

Milliseconds to Millions - Benchmarking & Optimization for Fun and Profit!!

performance

The past 10+ years of affordable and easy to scale cloud services & platforms has dulled our collective edge when it comes to matters of performance optimization and benchmarking our software creations.

Presented at: Full Stack London - 2017

Fast Secure Usable APIs in Node.js

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Hack the North is the biggest Canadian hackathon being held at University of Waterloo.

Presented at: Hack the North - 2016

Build, publish and maintain modern OSS Node.js Packages

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Building and publishing packages with ES2015/ES2016, covering everything from transpiler choices, testing, and publishing on npm.

Presented at: Toronto Node.js Meetup - 2016

Microservices Orchestration With Kong, Galileo & Gelato

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Building Microservices & APIs in Production, how to achieve orchestration harmony like a true maestro!

Presented at: NodeDay Amsterdam - 2016

RESTful Applications: Past, Present and Future

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From Egyptian gods to SOA, we’ll cover some API mythology, History and best practices, as well as cover the future of web standards and protocols and what that means for the APIs of tomorrow.

Presented at: Full Stack Toronto - 2014

API Love Story

api restful best-practice

From Egyptian gods to SOA, we’ll cover some API mythology, history and best practices, as well as cover the future of the web and what that means for the APIs of tomorrow.

Presented at: HTML Toronto - 2014

Automating Frontend Workflow

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An introduction to automating frontend development workflows with Yeoman

Presented at: AngelHack Toronto - 2014

Leadership

Community Driven Software Development

community process best-practice

Keynoting the PayPal DevCon 2019 sharing lessons learned from the Open Source world

Presented at: PayPal DevCon - 2019

Scaling Documentation and Team Practices

documentation process best-practice

How to scale your technology culture around documentation and inclusive community practices to support thousands of developers across a large Enterprise business all while going through a full digital transformation!

Presented at: GitHub Constellation Toronto - 2018 — GitHub Constellation Seattle - 2018

Beyond Agile: The Open Development Methodology

software process methodology

The Open Development Method is a summary of lessons learned in leading large teams around Agile, Scrum, Waterfall and other common methodologies.

Presented at: - — Canadian Tech @ Scale - 2016 — Big Data Toronto - 2016 — and more …