Closing Keynote" Reversing the River"
summary
A specific engineering story anchors the talk: nineteenth century Chicago builds sewers then raises Chicago 10 feet because gravity fails then ultimately reverses the Chicago River by digging canals 27 miles long with 8,700 workers over 20 years at about $23 billion inflation adjusted, inventing new earthmoving techniques later used on the Panama Canal. Modern analogs are concrete: a recently launched collaborative app called Canvas uses Ember, shows rendering slowdowns on long lists, and leans on opinionated tooling, performance, and trust to scale.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:27Cities
- 2:28JavaScript
- 3:48Location
- 4:55Growth
- 6:16Chicago
- 7:11Sewers
- 8:07Jacked Chicago
- 9:57Unintended Consequences
- 10:58The Root Cause
- 15:57Ambitious
- 18:19Leverage
- 23:04Canvas
- 25:14Moxie
- 28:44Outro
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