Slides and photos from HackConf 2019
On behalf of the Hack Bulgaria team who organized the HackConf conference on 11-13th of October, we want to thank everyone who attended, supported and participated in HackConf 2019!
HackConf's fifth edition featured 20 workshops, 51 speakers,
25 talks, 65 partners & supporters, and brought the tech
crowd closer together once more. 🎉
It wouldn't be
possible to make the conference happen without our partners
and sponsors. We’re pretty sure you’ve had your chance to meet
them, but we would like to take a moment and introduce them:
🌟
Office Fruit - Provided
excellent fruit baskets for all 3 conference days.🍇🍏🍌
🌟
Photo King - Did you
take a picture at the fancy photo corner 🎬 with top-notch
props and decor on Saturday? Check your photo 📸 here 📸
🌟 Kookie Cat -
Having authentic cookies made with high-quality ingredients
and love at the conference made our day healthy and ready for
a day full of talks! 🍪🥰
🌟 Office Relax- Did you have some time to stop by the massage corner? Our
friends from Office Relax provided two days full of free
massages. It was totally worth it! 🤩
🌟 Chair Pro
- For the first time ever we had a Quiet room, thanks to Chair
Pro this space was fully furnished and available for the
purpose of work and relaxation.
🌟 Pure H2O - A bottle of water wasn't enough, though. That's why we had
gallons of water! 🌊 We took care of our attendees being
well-hydrated.
🌟 Bookoholic- Did you stop by the booth on the 7th floor? Our friends had
books from O'Reilly specially selected for our attendees!
📚
🌟
Gifted Sofia
- An authentic Bulgarian souvenir shop full of beautifully
crafted goods such as magnets, postcards, books and lots of
other local flavourful gifts. 🎁
🌟Club-Mate - Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks with a unique Yerba mate taste. Isn't it nice? 🍹
🌟O’Reilly - The worldwide famous O'Reilly Media provided us with books that were gifted to attendees of the Q&A panel "Ask Me Anything" on Sunday. 🕮
🌟 Graphic Mama - We're so delightful for having supporters like Graphic Mama! 🥰 Thanks to them we (and you) have the awesome pandas on the conference's T-shirts, badges and of course the stickers.
🌟 StickerMule -
they printed the conference panda's stickers with the best
high-quality! If you want to have kick-ass stickers, then you
should check them. ;)
And of course, all our
sponsors who believe in us and make this event possible:
Experian Bulgaria,
SBTech,
SuperHosting,
PlayTech,
Smule,
Technofy,
Uber,
VMware,
Bosch Software Innovations,
HedgeServ,
G Adventures, REWE Digital,
SAP Labs Bulgaria, Progress,
UltraPlay,
NobleHire,
EPAM,
Accedia,
Neterra,
Tide Platform, Strypes,
Zuhlke Engineering, Object Systems International, Tick 42,
Nemetschek Bulgaria, Skyscanner,
it-economics,
Telebid Pro.
We’ve collected the presentations from our speakers, so you can review your favorite talks or check out any you've missed.
The link to the photo gallery is at the bottom of this post. All of the talks will be up on our YouTube channel very soon - subscribe, so you won't miss them. Enjoy! 😊
Аttached below are the presentation slides and additional links from our Workshop day.
🌟 Day 1 - Workshops (11th of October) 🌟
“The 10 productivity commandments” by Vassilena Valchanova
If you've missed Vassi's workshop, take a look at the articles which might help you be more productive:
👉 Productivity Tools“Building a high-performance, distributed and scalable microservice orchestration” by Timo Hentschel
“Behind the scenes of React Redux” by Kamen Kotsev
”During the workshop, we discussed how redux works alongside react. We implemented a Redux state provider and a consumer, and later a HOC to make it easier to hook up to the global state. We also implemented the redux actions dispatching and reducing.” Kamen Kotsev
You can find the code in this repo 👉 GitHub
“Angular Universal - be more SEO/CDN/User-friendly with server-side rendering” and “E2E testing of the Single Page Applications” by Maciej Treder
👉 Slides on Speaker Deck from “E2E SPA tests with protractor”
👉 Slides from “ Angular Universal - essentials”
“Public Speaking for Technologists” by Daniel Maher
“Build a Serverless Web Application with AWS” by Daniel Rankov
🌟 Day 2 - Talks (12th of October) 🌟
“The Groundhog Development Method” by Bozhidar Batsov
“Success Hacking 101: How to Survive the Commoditization of Your Job” by Matt Landheim
“The Useless Leader is the Best Leader!” by Alexander Popov
Alexander doesn’t have slides, but his talk is coming up soon on YouTube.
“SOLID principles - {part 1 of 5} - "S" the most misunderstood principle” by Martin Chaov
“DevCorp: choose your own adventure” by Pauline Vos
Pauline doesn’t have slides, but her talk is coming up soon on YouTube.
“Does functional programming actually help in production?” by Robert Avram
“Image Fingerprinting with Keypoints” by Vassil Lunchev
“WTF, Languages!?” by Alexander Georgiev
“The click that will bring your weekend back” by Tosho Trajanov
“Debugging people” by Mila Petkova
“ES9, ES10, and Beyond. ECMAScript Release Roadmap.” by Martin Ivanov
“Scaling your data layer” by Ivan Vergiliev
🌟 Day 3 -Talks (13th of October) 🌟
“Performance Profiling Techniques to Make Your Code Awesome” by Tim Driscoll and Rositsa Kotseva
“Ask Me Anything - Panel Session” with Ivan Vankov and Marian Marinov
For the first time, we had an “Ask Me Anything” panel in our program. We don’t have slides to share, but soon you’ll be able to watch the panel on YouTube. ;)
“Be nice, help the person who hacks your servers to get your data” by Vranac Srdjan
“Cache me outside - Caching Methodologies and Architectures” by Anthony Dang
“The Elements of Style in Programming” by Bozhidar Batsov
“What Can't Deep Learning Do?” by Svetlin Penkov
Svetlin doesn’t have slides, but his demo is coming up soon on
YouTube.
“A Thousand Words: How I'm still not using GUIs in 2019” by Lucas Fernandes da Costa
“Notes from My Travels: Building Effective Teams When You're in Different Places” by Euan Finlay
“Productivity for developers” by Radoslav Stankov
“Hardware connectivity on the progressive web” by Majid Hajian
“Introduction to Machine Learning” by Stefan Kanev
Stefan doesn’t have slides, but his talk is coming up soon on
YouTube.
HackConf 2019 Photos
All photos from the workshops and conference days are available on Flickr! 😉📷
If you took photos at the photo booth of Photo King, you can find them here.
We've got amazing things planned for HackConf 2020. We hope you're as excited as we are! 😍