How do polyglots learn natural languages so quickly and easily? Do we follow a similar process when learning programming languages? We will dive into the key differences and similarities of learning natural versus programming languages and consider how we can apply the most effective methods of learning natural languages to improving the processes by which we learn to code.

Sama is a front-end engineer at Heroku. As a junior engineer, she has spent this last year mastering Ember alongside reading about psychological theories of learning and development. When she's not writing code, you can find her out and about in San Francisco.

Ever wondered where your component state went or where it came from? ​​In this talk you will learn how arguments, decorators and tracked properties make state management of your component built in Ember Octane easier than ever before. In comparison with patterns known from traditional Ember apps, you will learn how to transform your modern components to predictable and future-proof building blocks of your application.

Jessica Jordan is a member of the Ember Learning Core team and a software engineer at simplabs. She is an editor at The Ember Times and organizes the Ember Berlin meetup. She is a big fan of CSS, art and comics.

We’re all human, and even a software developer will make mistakes, introduce bugs or leave code we (or others) regret later. How can we make the most of our Ember app and how can we face the issues we are creating? While Ember is growing and developers are using it for even more advanced software, handling errors and debugging will become more advanced too. With this talk we work through pain points, analysing, debugging, what to do and what not to do on solving problems and reducing them.

Chantal is a software engineer from the Netherlands, currently working at DockYard. Her main focus has been on building web apps from both sides as a UI and back-end developer. She has 4+ years of experience in Ember and was involved in helping others to work with Ember for the first time and teach them best practices. Also maintainer of a few ember addons.

Compilers have a reputation for being esoteric and intimidating. But they don't need to be! A compiler is just a program that writes programs. This talk will be a practical tour through the Embroider build system that also teaches compiler concepts along the way.

With the power of multi-pass compilation, Embroider can take a long-lived, conventional Ember app and give it lazy loading, code splitting, and tree shaking. All without modifying the app's own code.

Edward Faulkner is a member of the Ember Core Team. His open source code is running on mainstream gaming consoles, major social media sites, and hordes of enterprise applications. His consultancy, Polynomial LLC, leads ambitious software projects for a diverse group of businesses and nonprofits, and he's a lead developer for the Cardstack Project.

We often talk about the well-lit path, but what about the danger that lurks in the shadows? What happens when you make one poor choice? What happens when you make 10 poor choices? 100? Sometimes, we just make a mistake. Other times, we believe that the “shortcut” is the answer. Our apps don’t become a mess in a day- and it will take longer than a day to clean them up. There is no silver bullet that will fix everything. We’ll discuss some of those choices, their consequences, and practical steps we can take to allow our apps (and ourselves) the room to become better versions of themselves.

Melanie is a decorated, disabled military veteran who works as a Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn with a focus on accessibility in Ember.js. She is an active member of the Ember.js core team (steering committee, framework, and learning team), co-chair of EmberCamp Chicago, and co-organizer of the Ember Chicago Meetup.

The Millennium Falcon Lego set has 7,541 pieces and takes 35 hours to build. Imagine how much time could be saved if a fraction of those pieces were replaced with Duplos. In this talk I will share how my team has successfully extracted large sections of our apps into reusable “Duplos”. These Ember Duplos are used to rapidly start apps not just at the 10th floor but the 50th. We will explore how Ember enables us to build, compose, and customize these large logical addons. In addition, I will propose how our community might benefit from a Duplo ecosystem as it has with addons.

Jon Kilroy is a software architect at Verizon Media, where he builds and designs data centric applications. He is passionate about delivering great experiences to both end users and developers.

Live video provides our members an interactive engaging format since other members are actively commenting and reacting on the video in real time. However, when viewing a live video afterwards as a replay, we still want to preserve this user experience since most comments and reactions make more sense with the point in time context of the video. We will go through the entire lifecycle of a member action and what role Ember plays within it – from being created while watching a live video – to being requested and displayed during live and much later on when the live video gets replayed.

This is a two person talk.

Claudia is a Software Engineer at LinkedIn, working on video in the New York City Office. She graduated from The Ohio State University in 2018, and spent a semester studying at the University of Copenhagen.

Chris is a Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn, based in New York City working on video. He is an editor and contributor for both The Ember Times and the LinkedIn Engineering Blog.