09:30
Cyan: VH Floor 5 Boardroom East
Graham Martin
Intro & Tech Roadmap
An introduction to the day and a quick update on the tech roadmap presented last FabriCon.
Moderated by Nitzan Moore
09:45
Cyan: VH Floor 5 Boardroom East
Rob Meijer
Introduction to Message Queues
A gentle introduction for those who are completely new to message queues, a look at how they can be used to delegate time-consuming tasks, as well as some of the things you need to consider when implementing your own.
Moderated by Soumya Narayanan
10:20
Cyan: VH Floor 5 Boardroom East
Jack Hansard
Designing with ACF
Does the Fabric editorial user experience really matter? This session will make the case that the Fabric CMS experience is as important as what we deliver to our external users, and how ACF as a tool can help us unlock a delightful UX for our editors. We will cover a basic intro to ACF, the practical steps and considerations for its use in Fabric and the benefits for using ACF early in the design and development process.
Moderated by Bobby Rai
Magenta: VH Floor 5 Boardroom West
Graham Martin
How to use our performance tools
Page speed performance has a huge impact on user experience. Using a range of performance tools we can understand page speed performance as seen by users (and Google!). In this talk we’ll take a look through our performance tools and how to use them to find opportunities to improve our sites.
Moderated by Aaron Scollen
10:50
11:10
Cyan: VH Floor 5 Boardroom East
Luke Edwards
Rekognition
Rekognition is an AI based moderation tool to stop naughty pictures being uploaded to our servers. This talk will go into details of the service, some of the surprising issues we found when implementing it as part of the user-recipes upload form, and other potential uses around the business for Rekognition.
Moderated by Nicole Gerrard
Magenta: VH Floor 5 Boardroom West
James Allenby
An introduction to Datadog logging
Datadog is a cloud monitoring service that allows us to trace and monitor our platform. This talk will cover an introduction to datadog and it's capabilities such as how log management, processing and indexing works, generating metrics
and turning them into useful information, and exploring logs and live tail.
Moderated by Seemi Khan
11:45
Cyan: VH Floor 5 Boardroom East
Aaron Scollen
Splitting Headache User Stories
Love them or Loathe them, User Stories are a fundamental part of agile processes. This talk will explore one of our most common problems: How do you make that difficult feature or technical story small enough to be tackled in one sprint? We’ll look at guidelines and examples of how to split user stories.
Moderated by Bobby Rai
Magenta: VH Floor 5 Boardroom West
API documentation with Swagger
Swagger is a toolset used for RESTful APIs documentation. This talk will go through several tools that Swagger offers including how to write API documentation, how to send API requests within Swagger’s web interface, and some more advanced usage.
Moderated by Soumya Narayanan
12:20
Cyan: VH Floor 5 Boardroom East
Ant Alford
Single Customer View
In this session we'll walk through the types of data the Fabric Data team collects (customer, transaction and web) and its sources and look at an example of a real customer. We'll then look at the overall picture of Immediate customers and discuss what actions we can take based on the data to improve user experience and make better data-informed decisions.
Moderated by Nicole Gerrard
12:50
Cyan: VH Floor 5 Boardroom East
Nitzan Moore
Wrap-up
A short recap of the day and details on future talks and feedback channels.
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