O'Reilly Fluent Conference 2018
2018-06-12..2018-06-14
San Jose, United States
as the organisers put it
Fluent is both a web programming conference & web performance conference, with Javascript, React, & Angular training for web developers, designers, & security professionals.
who it's for
web developers, frontend developers, web performance engineers, security engineers, platform engineers, accessibility specialists, product designers
topics
Lambda@Edge JWT validation; CloudFront image resize and cache; KMS and ACM certificate management; WAF bot protection; Moment.js date parsing fixes; JavaScript date handling; browser rendering parallelism; 120fps and VR rendering requirements; ARIA semantics and keyboard focus management; seo benefits of accessibility; DMCA 1201 repair restrictions; mandatory upload filters and link tax
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| What's cooking in the AWS kitchen? Recipes for a better web | Cherie Wong | 08m |
Shows concrete recipes using CloudFront plus Lambda@Edge nodejs function to validate Cognito-issued JSON Web Tokens at the edge, return HTTP 401 without… | ||
| Fixing JavaScript Date | Maggie Pint | 03m |
Finds that set time on a Moment object never had the parsing code paths to work, opens a pull request, and discovers and patches four bugs fixed across… | ||
| The parallel future of the browser | Lin Clark | 03m |
Browsers must become parallel to meet new display and app demands: moving from 60fps (about 16 milliseconds to paint ~4 million pixels on a 13" MacBook Pro) to… | ||
| It's spelled "accessibility," not "disability" | Scott Davis | 03m |
Argues that treating accessibility as a niche tied to disability blocks practical gains and that making sites accessible directly increases SEO, improves… | ||
| The freedom to configure is the freedom to make a better world. | Cory Doctorow | 04m |
Argues that DMCA 1201 lets vendors turn simple configuration choices into legal locks, criminalizing repair and research with a five-year prison penalty. Gives… | ||
| Question and answer session | Cory Doctorow | 02m |
Explains that the EU copyright draft mandates mandatory upload filters — black‑box ML that blocks uploads if they match a corpus — and allows anyone to bulk… | ||
| nothing matches | ||