#Serverless Apps

• Name : Glen Maddern
• Twitter : @glenmaddern
• Github : geelen
• Website : codename.io

##Abstract

While the web development industry has seen a rapid growth of client-side applications, most of these still assume, or depend upon, a traditional application server design. But, with the rise of modern workflow tools supporting static sites, as well as an ever-growing array of hosted or configurationless services, you can now build functional web applications without writing a single line of server-side code.

This talk will go through the ways in which traditional server-side functionality is being moved. A combination of better tooling for client-side code, hosted services for authentication and persistence, and new open-source projects such as Hoodie all have a part to play.

Of course, security or sensitivity constraints may prevent logic from being wholly client-side, but we'll see how a client-first approach changes the way we think about even these tasks.

##Speaker Bio

Glen Maddern is a reformed backend developer, coming around once he realised that the internet was a Cool Place™ where people do Interesting Things™. In the last few years, that passion for the internet has seem him help start the super awesome movie review site Goodfilms, local AngularJS meetup group ngMelb, and local web development studio Codename.