Raju Gandhi
New England Software Symposium
Boston · March 17 - 19, 2017
Founder, DefMacro Software
Raju is a software craftsman with almost 20 years of hands-on experience scoping, architecting, designing, implementing full stack applications.
He provides a 360 view of the development cycle, is proficient in a variety of programming languages and paradigms, experienced with software development methodologies, as well an expert in infrastructure and tooling.
He has long been in the pursuit of hermeticism across the development stack by championing immutability during development (with languages like Clojure), deployment (leveraging tools like Docker and Kubernetes), and provisioning and configuration via code (toolkits like Ansible, Terraform, Packer, everything-as-code).
Raju is a published author, internationally known public speaker and trainer.
Raju can be found on Twitter as @looselytyped.
In his spare time, you will find Raju reading, playing with technology, or spending time with his wonderful (and significantly better) other half.
Presentations
Web Apps with Angular - Part I
In this session we will take a look at building applications with Angular. We will build a very simple application from the ground up, and attempt to understand the approach of Angular, as well as understand some of the terminology that Angular introduces.
This session will focus on the Angular 10
Web Apps with Angular - Part II
In this session we will take a look at building applications with Angular. We will build a very simple application from the ground up, and attempt to understand the approach of Angular, as well as understand some of the terminology that Angular introduces.
This session will focus on the Angular 10
Devs Just Want to Have Fun(ctional)!
Functional programming (FP) is fast becoming the tool that programmers reach for in this era of multi-core processors. Although the definition of “functional” varies quite a bit between implementations, there are a few facets that remain core and true to the paradigm. Facets such as functions as first-class, higher order functions, closures etc. In this session we will explore the meaning of these using JavaScript as our medium.
Being proactively Reactive with Rxjs
In today's world, our applications need to be both responsive, fast and scalable. Our applications need to respond to user interactions such as mouse movements, clicks and inputs as well as asynchronous inputs like XHR calls, server sent events, setInterval, even web socket events! Unfortunately as things stand today, there is no consistent way to deal with the myriad of different “changes” that could happen in an application.
But what if there is? This is what Reactive Extensions (specifially RxJs in this session) allow us to do. It offers us an abstraction that allows us to treat everything from DOM events (infinite streams) to our domain (maps, sets and arrays) as streams. This consistent interface now permits us to create and manipulate any source identically. Futhermore, it allows us to react to different sources as if they are one!
Reactive Extensions are fast becoming the de-facto approach of managing asynchronicity in JS land. From Netflix's UI to Angular 2 $http to ES7 - reactive programming is everywhere!
Docker 101
In this session we will get acquainted with Docker. We will discuss what docker is, how to install it, and how to start using Docker. We will also explore some of the benefits of containerizing your applications.