Getting started in the software industry is hard. Taz will outline the lessons learnt from his journey as an 11-year-old kid trying to make a video game by learning JavaScript to supporting Toronto's software community and mentoring developers to progressing through the industry and scaling up software teams.

Ever wonder about the full data stack powering Guild? Taz will give you an in-depth show & tell of the end-to-end architecture, covering everything from:

Database: how Postgres is used to manage & authorize deeply interconnected social data

GraphQL server: how that Postgres database gets transformed into GraphQL

GraphQL Persisted Operations: security & efficiency gains implemented on the server

Fine-grained caching: how all data provided via GraphQL is cached for read-after-write consistency

Server-side rendering: ensuring there isnt reflows / loading spinners/ re-rendering on initial load due to data fetching

Client-side rendering: efficiently fetching data via Relay

Data catalog: using GraphQL as a data catalog, to power all data fetching across Guild (i.e. not only the web app that youd expect)

Kotlin is so much more than a shiny new JVM language.

By targeting platforms outside the JVM, Kotlin allows us to share code and thus
stay focused on delivering value - all while staying truly native and not
making compromises in either user or developer experience.

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