Full Stack Fest 2017
2017-09-04..2017-09-08
Barcelona, Spain
[Full Stack Fest 2015, Full Stack Fest 2016, Full Stack Fest 2017, Full Stack Fest 2018, Full Stack Fest 2019]
as the organisers put it
A week-long full stack development conference with a focus on solving current problems with new & inspiring perspectives. We're putting the languages aside to put a strong focus on the technologies behind them and the problems they're trying to solve. At its core, the conference retains its soul: A single-track, curated, deeply technical event featuring the best speakers and industry leaders worldwide.
who it's for
backend engineers, frontend developers, site reliability engineers, platform engineers, devops engineers, security engineers
topics
serverless migrations on AWS Lambda; Terraform and Packer CI/CD pipelines; chaos engineering and GameDays; distributed tracing with Zipkin; DDoS attack mitigation techniques; Ethereum smart contracts with solidity; WebRTC for decentralised networks; Progressive Web Apps and IoT; deep learning model serving on Kubernetes; React with WebGL interfaces; CSS Houdini for visuals; SVG advanced techniques
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The web of commons | Karissa McKelvey | 34m |
Argues that scientific articles and public data should be a managed commons and demonstrates a working stack: a distributed system (using dat with DHT and… | ||
| Ethereum, Aeternity and the distributed wonders | Luca Marchesini | 42m |
Ethereum is presented as a Turing‑complete generalization of Bitcoin where every node replicates contract execution rather than sharing workload, deployed… | ||
| Terraform in your delivery pipeline | Anton Babenko | 34m |
Shows concrete pipelines that run Terraform + Packer in CI/CD, building AMIs (example app.json produced AMI used by Terraform) and validating changes with… | ||
| Migrating an existing service to serverless | Marcia Villalba | 28m |
Migrates Rovio’s ToonsTV VOD platform onto AWS serverless, proving the claim with five proofs of concept that replace an in‑house auth and NoSQL stack, build… | ||
| Defending the human network | Dr. Jessica Barker | 33m |
Argues that people become the weakest link because industry neglects psychology, cites sociological studies (Pygmalion, Leventhal) and a 400% rise in news… | ||
| The rise and fall of the full stack database | Frank Lyaruu | 33m |
Claiming a practical path from monolith to polyglot, a replication system based on Kafka and Kafka Streams copies an Oracle dataset into specialized stores and… | ||
| How Booking.com serves Deep Learning Model Predictions | Sahil Dua | 35m |
Booking.com deploys Python deep learning models by training inside Docker containers on Hadoop data, saving TensorFlow checkpoints, and spinning up… | ||
| What to do when complex systems fail: A guide to chaos management | Aish Raj Dahal | 45m |
Title gives specifics: a production log aggregator ran out of disk space causing reports to fail and a two‑hour escalation where 16 engineers on a Friday night… | ||
| The new reality of DDOS | John Graham Cumming | 40m |
Cloudflare runs a global network of 118 data centers and reports concrete DDoS patterns: botnets of ~52,000 devices deliver attacks like ~2 million HTTP… | ||
| An introduction to distributed tracing and Zipkin | Adrian Cole | 42m |
Demo shows working instrumentation in Java and JavaScript with Zipkin and a surprise language and proves traces survive HTTP headers end-to-end, not just… | ||
| Practical distributed systems: Building for the real world with chaos engineering | James Burns | 29m |
Practical claims: using distributed tracing and chaos engineering together yields observable, resilient microservices. Example results: parallelizing… | ||
| Flying Spaguetti Monster: Verifying protocols with types and finite state machines | Chris Ford | 35m |
Claim: expressive types can verify distributed protocols at compile time. Uses Idris to encode protocols as finite-state machines, Idris type-checked FSMs that… | ||
| Smart Grid: How IoT fights climate change | Kelsey Breseman | 40m |
Claims that distributed sensors and residential batteries can help the grid stabilize renewables by providing frequency regulation and demand response rather… | ||
| Beyond patterns: Technological systems and the nature of order | Jerome Scheuring | 39m |
Argues that Christopher Alexander’s The Nature of Order maps onto modern system design by using functional-programming ideas — composition, monad-like… | ||
| Back-end lightning talks | 49m | |
Claims a prototype called functional file tree transformations that replaces Docker layer rebuilds with a content addressable storage mounted read‑only via… | ||
| Gone in 60 milliseconds: Offensive security in the serverless age | Rich Jones | 36m |
Demonstrates concrete exploits against AWS Lambda: filename injection via S3 uploads to trigger system calls, loading tools into tmp cache persists ~4m30s to… | ||
| Front-end keynote | Jenn Schiffer | 45m |
Built an in-browser pixel editor make8bitart.com, then a web IDE Glitch.com that runs full‑stack Node apps, supports multiuser editing, uses CodeMirror, and… | ||
| Once you go PRPL... | Houssein Djirdeh | 30m |
PRPL means concrete steps not promises: push critical assets with preload/prefetch and HTTP/2 server push, precache and runtime cache with a service worker… | ||
| Magic Tricks with CSS Houdini | Samuel Richard | 36m |
Claim: JavaScript can extend the browser render engine, not just run in the main thread. Demos show worklets that load into separate threads, a typed OM… | ||
| Master the art of the AST and take control of your JS | Yonatan Mevorach | 28m |
Shows exact code changes and tools: parses JS into ASTs with Babel/Typescript/Rollup/ESLint, uses AST Explorer to find node types like MemberExpression or… | ||
| SVG can do that?! | Sarah Drasner | 38m |
Shows working demos and concrete numbers: a responsive “huggy laser panda” runs as three SVGs and stays 30 KB, an inline astronaut demo is 2 KB, a Smashing… | ||
| Using React Native + ClojureScript to launch iOS/Android apps to 1M users | Emin Hasanov | 38m |
A small Azerbaijani company uses ClojureScript + React Native to build a single codebase (about 5,000 LOC, no native code) and ships iOS and Android apps in… | ||
| Online/Offline equivalence: What our interplanetary tomorrow can teach us today | Chad Ostrowski | 32m |
Compares concrete timings (12–45 minute Earth–Mars latency, 24–48 minute page loads) and shows how service workers + local storage (LocalForage, PouchDB)… | ||
| Blasting React into Space: Building fluid interface swith React and WebGL | Ashi Krishnan | 36m |
Builds a custom React / WebGL binding (not DOM hacks) that wires a canvas renderer to a scene and camera using setScene and setCamera via React context… | ||
| Bringing back the 1990s: The revenge of JavaScript Style Sheets | Steve Kinney | 40m |
Historic browser code demonstrates that JavaScript Style Sheets implant a real runtime language into CSS: implemented only in Netscape Navigator 4, JSSS lets… | ||
| Rendering performance from the ground up | Martin Splitt | 42m |
Walks through concrete rendering steps: DOM + CSSOM → layout → painting → compositing, and explains why GPUs (thousands of simple cores) win at repeated matrix… | ||
| Web based Virtual Reality | Shagufta Gurmukhdas | 29m |
Claim: use WebVR via A-Frame to build cross‑platform VR with plain HTML instead of native SDKs. Shows a four‑line HTML “hello world” that yields a working… | ||
| Exploring the world of decentralized networks with WebRTC | Nikita Baksalyar | 35m |
WebRTC lets browsers open encrypted peer links without plugins using data channels API like WebSocket, works today in Chrome and Firefox on desktop and mobile… | ||
| Developing for the next Billion | Natalie Pistunovich | 36m |
Research from Berlin plus two years on the ground in Nairobi shows concrete constraints and solutions: average mobile data is 200–300 MB/month (roughly 10… | ||
| Progressive Web Apps and the Internet of Things | Luis Montes | 32m |
Shows concrete bridges from PWAs (offline, push, manifest) to hardware by wiring johnny-five and Firmata to Arduinos, using johnny-five + Firmata to blink LEDs… | ||
| Front-end lightning talks | 36m | |
Quick hits that actually show results: a demo uses a JavaScript library called Paco to deflate uploads and claims up to 5× size reduction on text/PSD files so… | ||
| Making a lot of things | Ben Foxall | 35m |
An experimental coding environment called cojs live evaluates small editable cells by tokenizing input, building ASTs and using Recast AST to preserve… | ||
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