The JAMstack meetup with a cup of tea 🍵
What is JAMstack?
A modern architecture —
Create fast and secure sites and dynamic apps with JavaScript, APIs, and prerendered Markup, served without web servers.
Last meetups
JAMstack London
This is the London chapter of the JAMstack community meetups.
We'll hear about what the JAMstack is and how it can be used. And we'll open the discussions on interesting trends in modern web development techniques.
Bring a smile and an eagerness to talk about new ways to approach web development.
Doors open from 6:30pm ready for a 7pm start
Outline (from 7pm):
- Welcome and introduction to the group
- Talk 1: About the JAMstack by Pedro Duarte (30 minutes)
- Talk 2: Serverless Speedtracking, by Eduardo Bouças (30 minutes)
- Refreshments
- Talk 3: (Ec)Static Commerce - building an e-commerce page with Gatsby, Netlify, and Stripe, by Thorsten Schaeff (30 minutes)
- Thanks, discussions and socialising
The speakers
Pedro Duarte (@peduarte) is a lead front end developer at Fathom in London, building cool stuff for the financial industry. Interested in JAMstack, design systems, good DX/UX and under engineering.
Eduardo Bouças (@eduardoboucas) is a firm supporter of an open, free and independent world-wide web, and an advocate of open source software. He's Principal Engineer at DADI, making all-round awesome things with a strong focus on API-first back-end and front-end systems, and the principle of COPE. Eduardo also maintain a few open-source projects and is the creator of the StaticMan JAMstack commenting system.
Thorsten Schaeff (@thorwebdev) is a Customer Engineer and Developer Advocate at Stripe working with some of the world's largest marketplaces as well as open-source e-commerce platforms. Stripe's goal is to enable great payment experiences by providing delightful developer experiences and tools. Do you enjoy enabling other developers to build cool things? => https://stripe.com/jobs#customer-engineering
Logistics
Venue access - The meetup will be hosted at Huge's offices (Google map: https://goo.gl/maps/fcqtVikHPtE2) between Old Street and Moorgate in London. The venue has stair free and lift access including access to the toilets. There will also be sufficient room in the presentation space for wheelchair access if required.
Toilets - Sadly we are not able to provide access to gender neutral toilets in this space, but we will state a policy that attendees should make use of the toilets that they feel most comfortable using, and that all attendees must be aware and accepting of this policy.
Refreshments - Huge, our generous venue sponsors, are also providing refreshments. These will include non-alcoholic beverages and snacks. please be aware that we are not providing a full meal, so please plan accordingly if you are concerned of rumbly tummies.
Closing - We expect to conclude the event at approximately 9:30pm. After which, many may choose to venture to a nearby pub for further conversations.
Recordings - The talks will be videoed for publication. We will record from a fixed video location and will describe what is in shot for the attendees, should they wish to remain out of shot throughout.
JAMstack London
This is the London chapter of the JAMstack community meetups.
We'll hear about what the JAMstack is and how it can be used. And we'll open the discussions on interesting trends in modern web development techniques.
Bring a smile and an eagerness to talk about new ways to approach web development.
Doors open from 6:30pm ready for a 7pm start
Format (from 7pm):
- Welcome and introduction to the group
- Talk 1: By Andy Shora (20 minutes)
- Refreshments
- Talk 2: By Darian Moody (20 minutes)
- Talk 3: by Will Hancock (20 minutes)
- Thanks, discussions and socialising
More information:
Refreshments:
In addition to providing our meeting venue, AKQA will generously be providing light (non-alcoholic) refreshments. But we're not planning for hot food, so it's worth planning for your own dinner. Talk 1: Too Many Kiwis, Andy Shora
How an exploded Appendix inspired Andy to bake out a nutrition website which humans can understand.
In this talk, Andy will talk through how he used Google Sheets, Food Nutrition APIs, Gatsby and Netlify to generate 100+ lightning fast web pages.
About Andy:
Andy is a Front End Developer based in London, with unhealthy interests in Geometry, DataViz, and investing in Smol Puppers
Talk 2 : Gatsby - Under the Hood, Darian Moody
Gatsby has built on the ideas from the existing generation of static generators to provide a truly flexible system for baking out sites.
In this talk, Darian will take you under the hood to see how Gatsby’s architecture lets you break free of the constraints you’re used to.
About Darian:
Darian is a software engineer based in London. With extensive experience in web architectures and development he has worked for a wide range of clients and agencies.
Talk 3: Venturing into Algolia, Will Hancock
Adding Search to static websites using Algolia and the #JAMStack. Algolia offers a lot of search functionality, index configuration, and you can get using it for FREE.
About Will:
Will is a Technical Delivery Manager at Ideas and Innovation company AKQA, with over 10 years of Web Development experience having being forced to use large monolithic CMS's, Will is very much enjoying writing dynamic functionality back into super fast static websites using the JAMStack.
JAMstack London
This is the first JAMstack meetup in London!
We'll hear about what the JAMstack is and how it can be used. And we'll open the discussions on interesting trends in modern web development techniques.
Bring a smile and an eagerness to talk about new ways to approach web development.
Doors open from 6:30pm ready for a 7pm start
Format (from 7pm):
- Welcome and introduction to the group
- Talk 1 (30 minutes): Post-Monolithic Content Management, Jessica Parsons
- Refreshments
- Talk 2 (30 minutes): JAMstack Infrastructure, Phil Hawksworth
- Thanks, discussions and socialising
The talks:
1. Post-Monolithic Content Management, Jessica Parsons
Static site generators have offered exciting new options for web developers, but until recently, they lacked a user-friendly interface for content editing—what many would call a CMS. There's now a handful of viable solutions out there, and as they gain traction, it's leading to some interesting confusion about what a CMS means when the architecture isn't all in one giant server app. I’ll present some different approaches to the problem, including Netlify CMS, an open-source, Git-based approach that's built with React.
About Jessica:
Jessica Parsons has spent half her life teaching, and a quarter of it developing for the web. She now combines those passions as a documentation engineer at Netlify and a teacher for Girl Develop It. Away from a computer screen, she enjoys sewing, fixing things, and enjoying the outdoors with her shiba inus in the San Francisco Bay Area.
2. JAMstack infrastructure, Phil Hawksworth
Recent years have seen a shift in technical architectures. Building complex services for the web used to be just that – complex. Projects might have demanded a broad range of specialist skills which could stretch even the fullest of full-stack developers. These days we have a growing number of options for how we design, build and maintain the systems which keep our web sites and applications alive.
This talk will look at ways to make use of emerging tools and services which can deliver surprisingly rich features and capabilities without maintaining expensive and complex infrastructure. We’ll talk about the benefits in keeping your stack simple, in using the expertise of others, and we'll examine the performance and security benefits of JAMstack and microservices.
About Phil:
Phil works in Developer Relations at Netlify, the fastest growing automation and hosting platform for modern websites.
With a passion for browser technologies, and the empowering properties of the Web, he loves seeking out ingenuity and simplicity, especially in places where over-engineering is common.
Phil’s career in web development spans almost 20 years and includes time as a Software Engineer at Verisign, an Open Source Evangelist at British Telecom, and Technology Director at R/GA where he worked with clients around the world such as Nike, Google, Beats By Dre and Samsung to bring engaging and effective experiences to the widest audience possible.
Talk idea?
Do you have experience (good or bad) with the JAMstack you want to share?
You have found a library, a framework or a SaaS?
You wrote / participated in an open-source project related to the ecosystem?
Don't wait, offer a talk! We will be happy to assist you in the choice of the subject, the preparation of the speech and the public expression if you wish.