Every engineer dreams at some point of rewriting a legacy system. Rewrites introduce bugs, duplicate effort, and delays. Architectural evolution or incremental rewrites can be an alternative, but only if done properly. Michelle Brush explores good and bad patterns for evolving architectures, offering a framework for deciding what approach to take.

Moty Fania shares Intels IT experience implementing an on-premises big data IoT platform for internal use cases. This unique platform was built on top of several open source technologies and enables highly scalable stream analytics with a stack of algorithms such as multisensor change detection, anomaly detection, and more.

Functional reactive programming (FRP) brings the same unifying abstraction to both async network calls and event-based UI code. Pete Hodgson explains the core concepts of FRP and shows practical applications in JavaScript for both client-side UI development and server-side networking code. Say goodbye to manually managing state in your programs and start seeing the world as streams of values.

The Web has grown to become a hugely important medium, but it has also become horrendously complex, which extends development schedules and promotes bug formation. Douglas Crockford introduces Seif, an open source project started at PayPal with the goal of transitioning the Web into an application delivery system that will be safer, easier to use, and easier to develop for.

Personas created for individual users fail to capture complex interactions between users of enterprise systems. Julia Zorzanello Byron and Omkar Chandgadkar show how they created team-based personas and aligned various silos of their product team by involving team members during synthesis. Attendees will learn how they can adopt this model to make better decisions with their product teams.