RenderATL 2022
as the organisers put it
This is RenderATL — a software engineering experience; where tech meets culture, inclusion, and accessibility, the Atlanta way.
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Building Scalable, Reliable, and Data Consistent Web3 Apps | Albert Hu | 17m |
You’re not going to want to miss what Albert Hu had to say at Render 2022. Get ready to learn how to leverage the leading web3 development platform to… | ||
| Why Education is Key to the Growth of Web3 | Adrian Kennedy | 12m |
Claim: Web3 already holds 2–3 trillion dollars (about 2% of global capital markets) with a plausible path to 10% in a decade, implying ~300% market growth… | ||
| How to Not Suck at Technical Interviews | Aline Learner | 25m |
Dataset from interviewing.io shows over 100,000 interviews and 10,000 hires; 40% of hires didn’t look good on paper. Women are 7× likelier to quit after one… | ||
| When You Build with Integrity, Accessibility Becomes A Default | Amina Aweis | 13m |
Built a content pipeline that adds subtitles and British Sign Language to tech videos, partnering with BSL performers to adapt timing and language, which opens… | ||
| Measuring Time to Visually Complete at Dropbox | Andrew Hyndman | 25m |
Dropbox ships an open source library called dropbox-ttvc that measures Time to Visually Complete in real users by combining DOM and visibility signals rather… | ||
| Refactoring the Web | Angie Jones | 18m |
Clear claim: a working decentralized web platform built from three open standards — decentralized identifiers (DIDs), verifiable credentials, and decentralized… | ||
| Building Decentralized Apps - Beyond the Buzzwords | Austin Griffith | 31m |
You’re not going to want to miss what Austin had to say at Render 2022. We will work through the mental model of web3 development from a familiar web2 mindset… | ||
| Async Programming in JavaScript Sucks | Ben Lesh | 24m |
You’re not going to want to miss what Ben had to say at Render 2022. Let’s explore why async is hard, and talk about some solutions in React. Don’t miss what… | ||
| The Missing Next.js Toolkit | Brandon Bayer | 17m |
A full-stack toolkit for Next.js that turns server functions into client-callable endpoints and ships blitz rpc as the API layer, an authentication scaffold… | ||
| Open Source Instead of Outsource your Database | Brandon Roberts | 24m |
Argues that choosing open source databases (examples named: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) gives long-term ownership, portability, and community security while… | ||
| Making Fun: Building Your First Mobile Game On the Side | Bria Sullivan | 19m |
Makes a concrete claim: a playable mobile game can launch in under three months by spending 8–10 hours per week, using Unity for engine work and Firebase… | ||
| Where to Start with Open Source | Brian Douglas | 21m |
Builds and runs a small platform called opensauce (opensource.pizza) that maps high‑impact contributors, enforces a workflow requiring a linked issue before a… | ||
| How Tech Ops Drives Results at Gap Inc. | Conrad Meneide | 23m |
Gap Inc. tech ops runs a cloud-first platform supporting 64M customers (55M loyalty), ~120M monthly visits and up to 12,000 orders/minute at peak, while… | ||
| Error Boundaries Save You From Crashes! Here's How to Use It | Danny Thompson | 13m |
Shows an actual banking demo that uses a Mirage JS mock API and flips a 500 response to prove one failing widget can unmount the whole tree unless wrapped… | ||
| Coding Complex App Logic, Visually | David Khourshid | 16m |
Argues that using state machines and statecharts tames growing boolean sprawl (example: ambiguous isLoading/isError combos) by turning flows into executable… | ||
| The Home Depot's Technology Director Talks Career Growth | Desha Rogers Givens | 20m |
Starts in Microsoft Access, moves through COBOL and Java into front-end work, and now uses React and AWS alongside pure JavaScript while saying Home Depot… | ||
| Coding in Flow | Erik Rasmussen | 21m |
You’re not going to want to miss what Erik had to say at Render 2022. Learn the tools of Modern Psychology to focus and be the most productive developer you… | ||
| Remix and View Your Content, Without a Head | Facundo Giuliani | 20m |
Demonstrates hooking Storyblok to Remix to serve a JSON-backed blog where the Remix loader fetches a story by slug and the React SDK maps Storyblok component… | ||
| NFTs for Community & Equity | Iris Nevins | 35m |
You’re not going to want to miss what Iris had to say at Render 2022. We will explore exciting opportunities for NFTs to help communities, organize, generate… | ||
| After the Offer: Succeeding as a New SWE | Genesis Bonds | 27m |
A clear playbook for the first year: prioritize engineering excellence by learning Kotlin after a Java to Kotlin migration (one mistake here once broke… | ||
| Please No More NFTs: Web3 for X | Isiah Hill | 11m |
You’re not going to want to miss what Isiah had to say at Render 2022. A deep dive on industry specific use-cases for engineers and developers to help onboard… | ||
| The State of Serverless in Modern Web Development | James Q Quick | 20m |
You’re not going to want to miss what James had to say at Render 2022. Let’s break down Serverless, why it can benefit you, and how you can use it to build… | ||
| How the API-First Ecosystem Made Us All Full-Stack | Jason Lengstorf | 16m |
Argues that frontend devs can act full‑stack by wiring APIs, not learning every backend discipline: builds a product list that uses the fetch API to call a… | ||
| System Design: Abridged | Jocelyn Harper | 10m |
You’re not going to want to miss what Jocelyn had to say at Render 2022. The most important aspects of system design in 20 minutes! Don’t miss what Render is… | ||
| Advanced TypeScript for 'Any' Problem | Jay Phelps | 13m |
You’re not going to want to miss what Jay had to say at Render 2022. Some JS patterns are just really hard to make type safe. In this talk we'll cover some of… | ||
| OP3N Season: Ledger's taking the doors to Web3 off the hinges | Keisha Mitchell | 11m |
Ledger positions Ledger Live Marketplace as a free storefront that lets developers ship apps that use the Nano hardware wallet for login and transaction… | ||
| SwiftUI for React Devs via an NFT drum machine | Ken Wheeler | 15m |
Builds a working SwiftUI drum machine that loads audio NFTs from OpenSea and plays them in a 4‑bar sequencer at tempo 75, using an AudioKit sampler hooked into… | ||
| Bringing Back Progressive Enhancement | Kent C. Dodds | 22m |
Remix builds a full to‑do MVC with user auth (~600 LOC plus ~100 for auth) that works without client-side JavaScript by relying on form submissions and server… | ||
| Mobile App Accessibility & Why It Is Important | Kim Bostic | 16m |
Claims a concrete shift: redefine app success metrics so accessibility is the standard, driven by EmpathyDriven Engineering. Cites hard numbers — over one… | ||
| Future-Proofing Your Tech Career (Fireside Chat) | Kishau Rogers | 30m |
Explains how Time Study automates workforce time classification using machine learning trained on a year to 18 months of labeled, unstructured activity data… | ||
| So you Wanna Be a Cloud Engineer | LaBrina Loving | 27m |
You’re not going to want to miss what Labrina had to say at Render 2022. This isn’t a “Learn Cloud in 10 Steps” talk. Labrina will break down key cloud… | ||
| Making Your Mobile Cross-Platform Dreams Come True with Modern Web | Mark Thompson | 21m |
Modern web lets one team reuse HTML/CSS/JS to ship mobile apps: a demo app built with Angular and Ionic shows concrete device APIs working — navigator.vibrate… | ||
| The Product Minded Engineer | Michael Brown | 21m |
Builds a Juneteenth conference from idea to launch using a deliberately ugly landing page as a validation MVP, tweets and a simple signup form to collect 2,500… | ||
| Modular Structure of Blockchains | Matt Elliott | 25m |
Argues that blockchain is just a database and breaks it into three concrete functions: data availability execution consensus. Claims reuse of a heavy consensus… | ||
| Fail Fast; Win Well | Michael Chan | 28m |
Career narrative that trades constant hustle for specific experiments and constraints: chooses family over a nonstop grind after illness and a child’s… | ||
| Going from 0 to Shipped with AWS Amplify | Nick DeJesus | 23m |
Claim: moving from hand‑rolled AWS CDK work that took two months to an Amplify prototype in two hours. Builds a live recruiting platform for Black Tech… | ||
| Beauty Meets Web3 | Pariss Athena | 12m |
Launch of a tech beauty brand called Dark Mode Beauty is announced and examples show concrete tools: Lancôme’s shade‑matching device, Olay’s AR future‑you… | ||
| Web3 Ownership and the Creator Revolution | Symone B Beez | 16m |
You’re not going to want to miss what Beez had to say at Render 2022. Exploring the benefits of web3 ownership, the upcoming explosion in creators… | ||
| Let’s Make a Game | Shawn Johnson | 18m |
You’re not going to want to miss what Shawn had to say at Render 2022. High level talk on the importance of creating and supporting black game developers… | ||
| Your Product Team Should Hire A Bartender | Tony Cimaglia | 27m |
Argument: hire career switchers because practical soft skills beat early CS theory. A bartender-turned-developer becomes a senior engineer in four years and… | ||
| Reliability as Code (RaC), A Startup Case Study | Ptah Dunbar | 22m |
Argues reliability moves into source control by baking tests, SLIs/SLOs and infra into deployments and measuring MTTD/MTTR. Deploys a sock shop microservices… | ||
| Beyond Mentorship - Storytelling and Sponsorship | Scott Hanselman | 23m |
Argues that mentorship alone is insufficient and sponsors must lend privilege by making warm introductions, advocating, and creating luck; defines a… | ||
| Why The Form? Data Mutations on the Web | Ryan Florence | 29m |
You’re not going to want to miss what Ryan had to say at Render 2022. Oh no. You've rendered a button and want to change some data when the user clicks it… | ||
| Our move to Digital By Design | Shawn Gandhi, Allison Malloy | 36m |
Shopify abandons office-centricity and goes Digital by Design, claiming offices are over and doubling headcount since 2020 while hiring in 18 countries… | ||
| Infusing Psychological Safety into Your Teams | Taylor Poindexter | 15m |
Defines psychological safety as being able to be vulnerable or make mistakes without punishment and claims it reduces inefficiency and boosts innovation by… | ||
| Web2 Dev to Web3 Dev Transferrable Skills | Yemi Adejumobi | 26m |
2021 brings a surge: about 60% of current web3 devs join in 2021 and common web2 skills map directly to blockchain apps. Front end React, JS, HTML and CSS stay… | ||
| Integration at A Component Level with Makeswift | Alan Pledger | 24m |
Demo shows how Makeswift embeds directly into a Next.js app by calling react runtime.registerComponent to expose ordinary React components with style, list and… | ||
| Visual Programming Language with Scratch Foundation | Bob Carr | 04m |
Scratch is a browser and tablet visual programming language for K–12 creative learning that is 100% free, born at the MIT Media Lab and now run by the Scratch… | ||
| Harold Hughes - RenderATL 2022 | Harold Hughes | 29m |
Bandwagon describes using blockchain since 2017 to let groups buy expensive NFTs and real estate by splitting tokens into shares, claiming this fractional… | ||
| Leadership in Software Engineering | Darnel | 10m |
Defines leadership as the measurable delta between start and finish and says leadership removes obstacles so technology lands with users and people grow. Uses… | ||
| Outkast's Big Boi & Esteemed Guest from Atlanta's Ecosystem | Outkast's Big Boi | 24m |
A wide-ranging conversation claims Atlanta is already the next U.S. tech capital and gives concrete wins: New Georgia Project registers 600,000+ registered… | ||
| Welcomes the Render 2022 Attendees | Andre Dickens | 04m |
Welcome remarks stress that RenderATL is now standing room only in its second year and positions Atlanta as a global junction of music and technology. The main… | ||
| Serves Flavor During RenderATL Conference | Chef JRob | 39m |
Live cooking demo walks through exact recipes and timing: breakfast hash browns use golden potatoes + red onion + yellow bell pepper, canola oil, two… | ||
| Experimentation at Microsoft | Tom Gamble, Waller Goble, Qasim Ijaz | 36m |
Microsoft runs A/B testing and progressive rollouts across Azure and Bing using feature flags and monitoring like Prometheus metrics, driving automated canary… | ||
| Art of Inclusivity - How to Create Content That Is Welcoming To All | Brittney Ball | 18m |
You’re not going to want to miss what Brittney had to say at Render 2022. Create content that is welcomed to all. Don’t miss what Render is doing next. Make… | ||
| DevOPs Lessons for Frontend Developers | Angel Rivera | 28m |
Defines DevOps as the finessing of handoffs between roles and claims culture and communication matter more than tools, arguing DevOps is people not Kubernetes… | ||
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