Guillermo Rauch — The Movement is Real

[Music] hello and thanks for joining me today on the first edition of back in les Kampf this conference is about obviously the name says doing a lot less we're going to talk about the broad trends of software engineering that are behind this movement of just broadly speaking

you were doing a lot of stuff in the past and now you can do a lot less of stuff in particularly ideas that you can focus a lot more on building great products and great experiences and as a front-end developer it's really the most important job that we have and you're uniquely positioned to really take advantage of this transition that we're seeing we're really all together seeing

a movement it kind of started for us with the move away from servers so when you deploy your application or website to the site now platform you focus just on deploying your code you just focus on building your app and what we took care of basically is we managed all that hard infrastructure we took all the engineering and that goes into servers

and clusters and provisioning and expose it to you with a great developer experience so the first part of this movement was moving away from servers to server less but it's not just buzzword so how does that work as specifically well we moved away from the single data center we moved away from putting all your code and your apps in one place to

putting it at the edge so this idea of putting all your sites your static websites your functions at the edge is really really important because again it's focusing on building great products when you deploy put your content at the edge then your visitors your customers your users we'll get it as soon as possible and you'll always be online so it's really really sweet and so this move from data

center to edge is enabled by what works I'm going to talk about today this idea of gem stack so you write JavaScript you query some API a lot of those api's you're going to learn about today because they're gonna be this great backends that already exist that you can use and you ship some markup from the edge to the client so in some ways the edge is also becoming the device and the

computer that execute that JavaScript that J in gem sack is really really exciting if you're coming to this conference from a design background or you're more interested in design you've probably also seen at the movement away from templates that were or template systems that were very common in full stack development frameworks to component systems so if you're working with react views veldt you're probably

thinking of using a component system at the sciences and style guideline and that's really really exciting because we're moving away from something that is really fixated something that is not as easily executed on the client to something that's basically universal reusable and that leads me to the most exciting part of this movement as well to me that is we're moving away from