Many of us have worked with abstractions over Web technologies such as HTTP, but REST, HTML5, and WebSocket are requiring us to understand how the Web really works. What actually happens when a Web browser opens a Web page? What is the connection between session state and cookies? How do …
Learn how to build customer-aligned, cross-functional teams from Alexander Grosse, ex-VP Eng at SoundCloud, now VP Eng at Issuu. He grew SoundCloud’s engineering team to over 100 people and in the process transformed how music is shared and discovered. He explains how to build teams around “customer-driven microservices” while encouraging …
Continuous Improvement on the development side only solves half the problem. We end up creating efficient processes to develop products that users will end up hating. So how do we apply Continuous Improvement in Product Management? I’ll go over how Toyota Kata, Kaizen, and other concepts and techniques can be …
Nothing interrupts the continuous flow of value like bad surprises that require immediate attention: major defects; service outages; support escalations; or even scrapping just-completed capabilities that don’t actually meet business needs. You already know that the sooner you can discover a problem, the sooner and more smoothly you can remedy …
It is said that there will be 20 to 50 billion connected devices by 2020, generating US$14.4 trillion in value. M2M — with machines connected so data can be exchanged among assets — works by embedding a communication module, sensor, or tag in a physical asset so that information about …
Responsive design is great for websites, but it’s use is limited when it comes to web applications. It’s much better to design your UI from the ground up using to work equally well on phones, tablets and browsers and in this talk, I’ll show you how.
