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Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift Stop solving problems that are already solved or problems that don't exist. You (probably) don't work for Facebook.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift Decentralized apps (dApps) are continuing to gain momentum in the industry. Blockchain developers are also now some of the highest-paid in the entire industry. Building decentralized apps is a paradigm shift that requires a different way of thinking than apps built with traditional centralized infrastructure, tooling, and services. As a front-end developer, I initially had a hard time understanding this entirely new (to me) ecosystem, how everything fit together, and the mental model needed to understand and be a productive full-stack developer in this space. In this talk, I'll give a comprehensive overview of the space, how you can get started building these types of applications, and the entire tech stack broken apart then put back together to show how everything works.

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Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift Sometimes forms get too big or need to be dynamic. Wizard forms can allow for a better user experience but complicate state management. In this talk, I'll demonstrate how to manage wizard form state with a finite state machine, using XState. No magic, just good code.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift Humans are natural problem solvers and we're good enough at it that we've survived over the centuries and become the dominant species of the planet. Because we're so good at it, we sometimes become problem seekers too–looking for problems we can solve. Those who most successfully accomplish their goals are the problem eliminators. Let's talk about the distinction between solving and eliminating problems with examples from inside and outside the coding world.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift Developers know how they like their integrations: functional, well documented, testable, smooth, easy to use, etc. And yet, what often happens is that the ones among the people who are developing for other developers, many somehow manage to miss a number of those important things due to any of the potential reasons. My team is not there just yet either, but we are fully focused on getting there. This is a talk about how we managed to minimize the time needed to get to that first "Hello World", or in this case specifically, the time needed to have some of our API methods running in close to no time. Hopefully, might even help you get an idea of how to improve some of your own processes.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift Every time a new user registers for your service, your application probably sends a confirmation email. How does that email look in the user's browser? How does it look on a mobile screen? And most importantly: does it work? In this presentation, I will show the full end-to-end open-source testing procedure for validating HTML emails. We will test the email functionality, accessibility, and visual look and style to ensure that our users are not silently dropping out due to a broken email subsystem.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift Logic is much more than just code. It is the user flows, the diagrams, the user stories, and the business logic that are shared with developers, designers, project managers, and other stakeholders. In this talk, we'll explore tools and techniques for unlocking application logic and making it accessible to everyone, in a highly collaborative, visual way. With software modeling concepts and techniques like state machines, statecharts, and the actor model, even the most complex logic can be visualized, understood, simulated, and even automatically tested by the entire team, preventing bugs and drastically reducing the cost of development.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift Have you ever used a SaaS and thought: "They don't have this one feature I want, I wish I could implement it myself" (e.g. edit tweets)? Well, we did, and that's why we gave our customers an escape hatch of being able to add functionality we haven't implemented (yet!). In this talk, I'd like to present how a small team of 4 engineers built a serverless compute platform by combining serverless AWS services in a matter of weeks, not years. You'll learn what are the key challenges of building a system like this, what to avoid and how we securely run users' code. And the best part? The whole system - frontend, backend, infrastructure is all built in a single programming language - TypeScript.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift How many times have you found a great library, perfect for your needs but written in a different language? Or have you ever encountered an issue where someone would love to contribute a feature to your application but program in a different language to you? Creating libraries that are linkable from another language, or enabling the extensibility of your application in multiple different languages, can be seen as the holy grail of application development. WebAssembly presents an incredible opportunity to solve these problems by providing a common compile-time target and system interface. In this talk, you will learn some of the core concepts of WebAssembly (Wasm) and the WebAssembly System interface (Wasi) and leverage them from your applications to link foreign language libraries and provide a pluggable architecture not limited by language choice.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift Qwik a Novel Approach to the Fastest Possible Time-to-Interactive by Delaying JavaScript Without Sacrificing Interactivity Misko Hevery (Builder.io) Builder.io provides visual headless CMS for eCommerce websites. Making sites load fast with the current set of technologies is essentially out of reach for most. Builder.io is working on a new open-source framework that focuses on time to interact as a top priority. The unique approach allows for rendering sites on the server and delaying downloading of the code until the user wants to interact with the page. This approach results in the highest Google PageSpeed Insights scores.

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Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift Is your current API development process a little overwhelming? Unclear requirements repeated rework, and other miscommunications clutter your working relationships. Learn how an API-first approach can simplify your relationships and increase the velocity of your development process. API-first design and development are quickly becoming an industry standard, and in this presentation, Joyce will review tactics for using mock servers in designing, integrating, and sharing your applications.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift Yes, they’re here. Node v12 marked the first version of Node.JS where ESM support is unflagged, meaning you can start using ES Modules. It’s been a long, four year journey from defining them in the spec (June 2015!) till they could be used in Node.JS (November 2019). Why did it take so long? What were the major hurdles? What does the migration path look like? Are they really better than CommonJS Modules? What is in store for the future? And most importantly: can I start the migration?

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift We opened European FreshBooks offices in January and February of 2020 and, shortly after, the whole world changed. In the middle of a global pandemic, we built several remote, high-performing engineering teams. Timezone differences, being completely remote, affinity distance, and a general feeling of isolation everyone felt made challenges we had in front of ourselves even harder and even more apparent. I will share our learnings alongside some forward-looking thoughts.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift Tech debt comes as free credit for our lack of experience, wrong deadlines, or simply a mix of bad decisions; but no matter how it gets there, the cost is usually on accessibility. The first to sacrifice is the one tool that allows all people to surf the web without constraints. How do we tackle a technical debt for accessibility? Where do we begin? How fast and far can we get? In this talk, we will go through real-world examples on how to begin fixing the most important technical debt out there.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift In this presentation we will illustrate how the volume of transactions today brought up the need to rethink how we build our apps. We will introduce the Reactive Manifesto, it's key principles (Responsive, Resilient, Elastic, Message Driven) and the fundamental problem it's trying to tackle.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift A chat with David, about his beginnings, his work, and early success like selling to Jeff Bezos. Also, chat about software development in general and of course – cars. The most anticipated speaker of Infobip Shift tells all.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift Silvio Kutic (Infobip) & Ivan Burazin (Infobip) - Bootstrapping a unicorn must be easy if you're a couple of developers starting from a garage in a small Istrian town - or is it? Embark with us on this crazy journey of building a global CPaaS leader with one of the cofounders and the CEO of Infobip - Silvio Kutic. We will learn how is this even possible and how Infobip has grown to be a global powerhouse with over 70 offices on the road to an IPO and what do the statements 'we are humble engineers' and 'we are just starting' mean for us.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift Any software system will eventually experience a degradation, outage, or a similar incident. Depending on the type of business you're in this can lead to a loss of revenue and clients, or even have legal repercussions. That is why it's important to have a good incident management process for resolving incidents, reporting on their impact, and preventing them from happening again. In this talk, I'll start from my personal experience with challenges in establishing the incident management process in a company with Infobip’s scale. I’ll describe how I used gamification principles to build a tabletop role-playing game Deployments and Disasters as a tool for incident management training. I’ll show you how the game works, how it helps players prepare for real-world incidents, and how you can use it to improve the incident management processes in your own business.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift When we develop a Single Page Application, we have to use a Router. It's a common use case, yet every single framework has its own router, React even has multiple ones you can choose from. And even though each framework is different and every router takes a different approach, they all share quite a few principles. Understanding those helps us handle routing in our SPA because behind all those simple, different APIs provided by framework-specific routers, a more complex architecture is hidden from us.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift Lazar Travica (MVP), Josipa Majic (Revuto), Illia Polosukhin (NEAR Protocol), Mislav Javor (AMPnet) & Nikola Pavesic (Infobip) It has been over a decade since Satoshi's white paper and the world-changing promise of blockchain, cryptocurrencies and tokens has entertained the minds of people of all walks of life. Projects have launched, regulators moved in, bulls and bears have come and gone, but the democratizing promise of crypto stayed. This panel will address the questions on how are the crypto applications being developed, what is the game-changing use case, how do you deal with the still present skepticism and how do you find the people willing to work on it. Join us and see if the tide is finally changing.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift Ana Zovko (Croatia Osiguranje), Ivana Budin Arhanic (Valamar), Fedor Bauer (Erste Banka) & Nikola Vrdoljak (404) We often hear those popular mantras that software will eat the world and that every company will become a tech company. Well, the software is already eating the world and yet, for many companies, the transformation into a tech company has just begun. There are three companies that have progressed further than others, and they will be sharing their experiences and knowledge to make it easier for those following in their footsteps. Do management boards understand the technology and should they understand it? How can we create an innovation-stimulating environment? How can we ensure that the company’s processes do not jeopardize the creation of digital products? How can we create an environment that will attract engineers? How can we attract digital talents to corporations? Insourcing vs outsourcing in large corporations.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift Eleftheria Batsou It’s not enough to build apps that function, it's not even enough to make them understandable and usable, you need to build apps that bring joy and excitement, pleasure and fun, if possible even beauty to people’s lives. Learn to design with your user’s needs & expectations in mind by applying basic rules. What to expect: - UX vs UI: The two different perspectives of UX and UI, the importance of each, what does a UX designer do, what does a UI designer do, the different categories of UX as well as UI. - About Heuristics: What is the heuristic evaluation? How to conduct an effective heuristic evaluation? why do we need it? - The 10 Usability Heuristics (by Jakob Nielson and Don Norman): With tips and examples. - The Do’s and Don’ts of UX: Quick tips about UX researchers and designers having always in mind the user. - The Good and the Bad of UI: Presenting in a fun way how a good designer works VS a bad designer.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift Kubernetes allows a lot. After discovering its features, it’s easy to think it can magically transform your application deployment process into a painless no-event. For Hello World applications, that is the case. Unfortunately, not many of us do deploy such applications day-to-day because we need to handle state. Though it would be much easier to have stateless apps, and despite our best efforts in this direction, state is found in (at least) two places: sessions and databases. You need to think about keeping the state while stopping and starting application nodes. In this talk, I’ll demo how to update a Spring Boot app deployed on a Kubernetes cluster with a non-trivial database schema change with the help of Hazelcast, while keeping the service up during the entire update process.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift The beast is alive! How do you feel about ASCII-alike CSS Grid layout with polyfluid sizing and ch unit? Do you feel itchy when it comes to building responsive HTML email layouts? What about the brave new world of dynamic static site generators and JAM stack? Have you ever tried to work around nested CSS Custom Properties, untamed 3rd-party scripts, shady service workers, multi-dimensional variable fonts and painfully outdated pattern libraries? Well, let’s bring it on! Beware: you will not be able to unlearn what you’ll learn in the session! Ah, one more thing, take the techniques with a grain of salt — we do not take responsibility for sleepless nights and nightmares caused by the content of this session.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift Single Page Applications are awesome for quick scaffolding. You create a new app, you handle all the logic, bring in dependencies to handle common use-cases. Boom. Done. Until things start getting bigger. One team becomes multiple teams, goals and requirements multiple beyond count and suddenly performance and accessibility show hard to overcome bottlenecks. How do we beat those growing pains? There isn't a single answer, but Jamstack can definitely help. Maintainability and complexity are not opposites.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift The way we write JavaScript in 2030 will be completely different than in 2020. Here's why: the slow death of IE11 and rollout of ES Modules will converge toward a new generation of JavaScript tooling. These tools are faster, typesafer, and polyglot, leading to both a better developer and user experience. Change is afoot!

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift Isn’t it funny how we dread implementing the basic parts of our app? Authentication, authorization, state changes; there’s so much that’s expected of our applications today, yet we often procrastinate on those pieces. 😅 Luckily, implementing these parts isn’t as difficult as many think and I want to show that in this session! In this demo extravaganza: - I’ll guide the audience as I add these pieces to an application step-by-step. - We’ll learn how to create functions and triggers through MongoDB Realm to handle state changes. - We’ll explore how to implement basic authentication and authorization to secure our app and handle different user types. - Time permitting, we'll interact with the demo! By the end of this talk, the audience should be able to interact with this demo and understand how each part works!

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift Bruno Kovacevic (RBA) & Ivan Brezak Brkan (Netokracija) Every known modernization strategy has its pitfalls…how can one mature enterprise in a highly regulated environment embrace and utilize top technology trends to escape the grasp of monolithic architecture. All of this without a risky big bang approach and with cultural change as the main ingredient for successful transformation.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift Samsoor Hemat (venITure) & Aleksandar Daic (Infobip) Fireside chat: Is the Omnichannel Approach Key to Winning Customer Retention? Happy customers are quickly becoming the main differentiator between successful businesses. But what creates or influences a great customer experience and evolves into retention? The best person to answer that is your customer. Using an omnichannel approach forms the foundation of gathering feedback and delivering winning customer experiences. Find out how you can leverage omnichannel service communication, which includes a combination of Atlassian tools, chat apps, and Infobip solutions, to gather valuable feedback and deliver winning customer experiences.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift Why graph - because it's how we think! Graph is a natural way to represent all kinds of things, ideas, and how they relate to one another, delivering more value and better results. Analyze relationships deeper into the data to find hidden patterns, connect all datasets to uncover undisclosed relationships. All this in real-time.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift The Jamstack way of building the web is highly optimized for speed and performance and we love it. This is because the assets required in your site will be pre-generated at build time and readily available to your users. But what happens when your site grows and you have to pre-generate thousands of pages and assets? your build times will skyrocket. This will consequently impact productivity and increase the cost. In this session, we’ll look at DPR - a new approach that aims to reduce build times for teams and individuals building large sites on the Jamstack.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift We all know that we should be writing tests for our code. Sadly, it’s not always straightforward to know how to get started. Or worse, you might have trouble convincing your manager that writing tests is a useful tool in ensuring code quality. In this talk, you will learn how you and your team can adopt a test-driven mindset that will engrain testing in the process of writing feature requirements. You will see how this approach can help you write your clear tests early in the development process, and I will demonstrate how automated testing will save you and your team a ton of time. And most importantly, you will learn how writing test can be an activity that your entire team can participate in.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift The CSS World keeps advancing every year there's a new spec being considered or a new feature coming to the web. Over the past few years, a lot of these features shipped without developers knowing or using them. In this talk, I'm going to demystify all the latest and new features in the CSS world and share what the possibilities are currently with styling on the web as well as the future of where CSS is going.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift Tech in banking - is there a pilot on a plane? Short chat about tech in banking

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift The pandemic has changed not only our real lives but also our virtual lives. The establishment of remote working, WHO's suggestions to play video games, virtual sporting events, and digital funerals have found their way into our everyday lives. And it especially changed the way how we work and collaborate. In this talk, Johanna Pirker discusses the impact of the pandemic on the way how we work and live and gives a future outlook on opportunities (and risks) from a developer's point of view

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift For many years, we have migrated all our devtools to Node.js for the sake of simplicity: a common language (JS/TS), a large ecosystem (NPM), and a powerful engine. In the meantime, we moved a lot of computation tasks to the client-side thanks to PWA and JavaScript Hegemony. So we made Webapps for years, developing with awesome reactive frameworks and bundling a lot of dependencies. We progressively moved from our simplicity to complex apps toolchains. We've become the new Java-like ecosystem. It sucks. It's 2021, we've got a lot of new technologies to sustain our Users eXperience. It's time to have a break and rethink our tools rather than going faster and faster in the same direction. It's time to redesign the Developer eXperience. It's time for a bundle-free dev environment. It's time to embrace a new frontend building philosophy, still with our lovely JavaScript. Introducing Snowpack, Vite, Astro, and other Bare Modules tools concepts!

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift Did you know that Service Management is not only suitable for IT teams, but also for all high-velocity teams from all business areas. Jira Service Management from Atlassian integrates all teams and takes service to the next level. This way, you not only make your customers happier, but also your employees. Learn what Jira Service Management is all about and what new features will be coming soon.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift Not all Open Source software is created equally. Understand the risks and benefits when choosing a technology and distribution for your project or solution. Especially now, in the light of several announcements of certain "Open Source" vendors.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift Organizations need to innovate to survive and thrive. But generating and implementing novel and useful entrepreneurial ideas in an organization is not easy; it is much easier to just keep doing the same thing that you have always done. So what options do leaders have for driving innovation and entrepreneurship in their organizations? In this presentation, I explore four distinct ways that leaders can foster innovation and entrepreneurship within an existing organization.

Get your tickets for Infobip Shift 2023 at https://shift.infobip.com/ https://twitter.com/InfobipShift In this talk, we will discuss rather non-traditional use of Azure Cloud Services - to create interactive visual art exhibits. We will cover Cognitive Services for Computer Vision, using Azure Functions to organize cloud backend, and Azure ML to train our own generative neural network models (GANs). This talk will cover the range or popular Azure services, and also teach you how you can create some cognitive art on your own.