Keynote: Breaking Transmission Chains with JavaScript
summary
NearForm builds and ships a privacy first COVID-19 exposure notification system written in React Native and TypeScript that initially uses a custom Bluetooth stack then migrates to the Apple/Google Exposure Notification API; source code is MIT licensed and published as the COVID Green project. A 15 person team delivers a working app in ten days, launches July 6–7, hits over 1 million installs in 24 hours, sustains 20 million AWS API calls per day, and reaches about 40% of Ireland adults at peak.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 0:46About NearForm
- 1:32The Story of how we created the most widely used Exposure Notification App Worldwide in 2020
- 7:02Some Principles
- 8:28Journey from March 22nd - July 6th
- 15:30App Launches
- 16:07Milestones
- 17:46In Summary
