Progressing through Environments with Uniform

Enterprise JAMstack at JAMstack for Sitecore

Serverless Framework Talk

Power of TypeScript for React Talk

Progressive Web Apps ⚡️ talk

Building an HTML5 Bomber game - Bristech

Leap Motion workshop at Southville JS Bristol

Flight of the Audio Visualator - Bristol Skillswap

Presenting Adventures in HTML5 Games, AKQA Anoraks

Firebase Functions in Custom Region CORS Error

Uniform Codegen Project

Why I Like Using TypeScript

Rich Domain

Middleware Pipelines - Promises

Middleware Pipelines - Chain of Responsibility

Handling Error Cases

Working with Nullable Values

Exploring fp-ts Series Intro

Refactoring

Reducers

Actions

Connected Components

Component Props and State Interfaces

The Power Of Typescript For React

Reduce Unused JavaScript with Dynamic CMS Components

Reduce Unused JavaScript Nextjs Bundle Analysis

Reduce Unused JavaScript to Improve Lighthouse Performance

Create Global UI State with React Context

Diving Into Functional Programming

Models Everywhere

Reactive Programming

Pure Components. Creating stable, testable UI we can rely on

Terminator Genisys Movie And Poster Creator

Image Pooling for the Win

BoA Vantage Points app, the React Native / Redux Challenge

Is It Anonymous

The Power Of A Virtual Dom

Libraries Should Not Initialise State

Coffee Script Nodejs Debugging

Building Stats in to GigStamp

Promises And Events

Nesting Handlebars helpers into templates.

Inserting a model at correct index in Marionette.CollectionView appendHtml

Measuring performance between high resolution timers

JavaScript Vector Classes for Creative Coding

How will I Keep JavaScript Code Quality High (JSHint)

3D CSS boxes and Physics with Cannon.js

Visual Graphing to See Relationships

HTML5 Racer - Adding a Track and Colliding with it

Drawing Sprites with Canvas

Velocitr, velocity and drag helper

Testing jQuery.kinetic with Grunt and qUnit

Submitting a form to a new window

Making a simple html5 racing game

A (RegExp) Catastrophe

Using OAuth to connect with Github using Node.js

Cross Domain or Protocol iFrame Communication

Validating Postcodes with a Regular Expression

Simplify, Modularise, Simplify

liScroll Update (jQuery news ticker with next/previous/play)

Rivet Advanced JavaScript Combiner v2 Released

New Juxtapo article on the Aqueduct site

Some worthwhile reading

sjs, making server-side JavaScript easy


Thanks to everyone who came to the Bath Digital Festival lunchtime events.
It was really nice to be given the opportunity to speak and then to be able
to talk with so many of you afterwards.

Here are the slides:


## This is what I covered

  * What have we achieved at Seccl?
  * What are the pinch points?
  * Who is this for?
  
## What is Serverless Framework

 - Infrastructure as code
 - Simplified deployment of separate functions
 - Provider agnostic

## What have we achieved

Seccl is a startup in Bath pioneering a new breed
of digital services for wealth management

* Node.js, TypeScript, React, Express APIs
* Serverless Framework on AWS
* APIs, pubsub, queues, functions, static websites, cdn
* ## 90% of our infrastructure (and rising) is controlled by code!

## Here's the rub! There has been pain

 - Deployment is needed to fully test end-to-end and that can slow things down
 - Our workflow is heavily unit test focused so this helps but when
   it gets to testing the integration in our dev environments you do have
   to deploy.
 - The offline capabilities aren't a silver bullet, when you start to link
   functions together you could still have some functions running in the cloud
   and some locally

### What about lambda?

 - we use aws and so that means lambda
 - building compiled code to run in a different architecture
 - Cold start when you run lamda inside a VPC is really painful (up to 9 secs)
 - When it goes wrong, your head can explode as to where to start looking
 - Sometimes it's completely out of your ability to fix
 
# Who is this for

## 👍

  - For any application logic which can be easily spun up, and then powered down
  - It works really well for APIs which talk to a database or other APIs
  - It works great for a micro-service like architecture
  - For teams with little devops specialist skills
  
## 💩

 - You can't be afraid of a learning-curve
 - You can't work with a full framework like Rails
 - For someone who wants a silver bullet and a holiday in Hawaii
 
# Roundup

 - 💪 Infrastructure as Code
 - 💪 Replica environments
 - 😱 Everything is separated. It's different complexity
 - 😱 Slow cold starts
 - 💪 No maintaining hardware
 - 💪 Serverless plugins to fill the gaps
 - Tooling is improving at a rapid rate
