Confreaks Courses

Emoji, Web Components, and Art - Making Creative Web Tools

Explore how to create web art using emoji, web components, and custom tools for transforming words into emoji art and images into CSS-stylable pixels.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Solving Imaginary Scaling Issues, at Scale

Explore a humorous yet practical guide to avoiding unnecessary scaling solutions while learning genuine strategies for real scaling challenges from experts serving billions of JavaScript downloads weekly.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Atomic Design as a Migration Strategy

Discover how Atomic Design can be used as a migration strategy for web applications, building complexity from simple components to gradually transform legacy systems.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The True Cost of Unmoderated Collaboration: A Story from the Trenches

Explore the importance of having clear codes of conduct and moderation guidelines in open-source projects to prevent toxic behavior and harassment, based on real experiences from the trenches.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Conversational UIs: Talking to Siri, Alexa, and Your Web Browser

Explore the world of Conversational UIs, from voice interactions with Siri and Alexa to screenless interfaces, and learn how to implement these technologies in your own applications.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Albers as a Millennial - Making Generative Interactive Art with JavaScript

Discover how to create generative interactive art with JavaScript, applying color theory with HSL, composing patterns with SVG, and adding depth through motion and interaction.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Choose Your Own Deployment: Interactive Feature Flag Adventure

Explore feature flags in this interactive adventure where the audience chooses deployment paths, learning how to reduce risk, manage multiple deployment streams, and speed up deployment safely.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The History of Fire Escapes: How to Fail - DevOpsDays NYC 2018

Explore real-world analogs to software failure prevention and management, drawing lessons from fire safety systems to design better contingency plans for unexpected technical failures.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Stealing The Best Ideas From DevOps - Five Key DevOps Principles and Their Applications

Discover 5 key DevOps principles (Small Batches, MVP, Three Ways) applied beyond web applications through case studies in onboarding, failover processes, monitoring, PXE-install systems, and book writing.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Moving Fast At Scale

Discover how high-performing engineering teams at Google, eBay, and Stitch Fix maintain speed at scale through organizational structure, DevOps practices, continuous delivery, and end-to-end ownership culture.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Strategies to Edit Production Data Safely - DevOpsDays NYC 2018

Discover five progressive strategies for safely editing production databases, from raw SQL to building a Script Runner application, with pros and cons to help determine the best approach for your team's needs.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Moneyball and the Science of Building Great DevOps Teams

Discover how to apply Moneyball principles to DevOps teams, challenging preconceptions about skills and using data to build high-performance teams that deliver quality results.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Perfecting Perf: Rapid, Rigorous and Reproducible Performance Experiments

Discover how to quickly assess web optimization ideas through rigorous experimentation, focusing on mobile performance to improve user experience and search rankings.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Making the Jump: How Desktop Era Frameworks Can Thrive on Mobile

Explore how desktop-era frameworks like Ember can adapt to mobile constraints, examining architectural changes needed for smartphones with spotty connectivity and varying hardware capabilities.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

JavaScript Engines: How Do They Even? - Compiler Concepts and Performance Optimization

Discover how JavaScript engines work, from just-in-time compilation to performance optimization, and learn to write compiler-friendly code that runs faster.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video