Jem Young is a (very) tall engineer at Netflix who loves dogs, reading, and clean code. He really enjoys working across the stack but his true passion lies in JavaScript and building a clean user experience. He believes that empathy is the key to building an effective UI and when he’s not out chasing his cat, you can find him hassling other engineers to write more tests.

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How Things Work:

Is engineering an art or a science? Despite years of research and countless books on the subject, our understanding of what quality engineering means is imperfect at best. Many companies, including some here in Silicon Valley, still judge engineering performance by lines of code written and the number of bugs closed. In this talk, I’m going to cover some of the big ideas we’ve had in Netflix UI Engineering but more importantly, I’m going to talk about what quality engineering is and what we mean when we say “human performance.”

Michael Paulson is an engineer at Netflix where he focuses his effort on making the product better through perf optimizations. When he is not coding he is wrangling his 3 children, dating his wife, or pwning noobs on Fortnite. Jem told me not to talk about Fortnite. Fact.

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Approachable Performance:

There are a lot of great tips and strategies to improve the performance of an application, but how do you know where your application needs performance improvements? In this talk, we will outline how to analyze your application and understand where to focus your attention on making improvements for the overall speed of your application.

Jacques Favreau is a senior UI engineer at Netflix on the Web Core team, covering web performance, developer productivity, cross-team libraries, and best practices. He’s is an ardent supporter of accessible websites, eslint, programming by voice, and removing magic from code. When not watching or working on Netflix, you can find him at home with his wife and daughter, or out pursuing their shared passion for travel.

Measure the change you want to see in the world

A stairway costs over $100,000 each year because it turns left instead of right; a Gulp process trapped an engineer for almost a year; and a million laptop fan hurricanes were launched with a pink, flowery crank. All around us, the Hidden World steals our money, time, and energy when we're not paying attention.

We build empires with JavaScript, but without fully understanding what we care about, how do we know which way to go next, or what our choices really cost? Come for the stories of messing up at scale, and stay to learn how you can avoid paying the Hidden World in your own projects!