Within an event-driven, microservices architecture there's often a big gap between a web component that relies on some data, and the event data itself. There will usually be several services in the middle, from multiple APIs, databases, distributed caches etc. Building and updating that web component might mean touching many codebases and coordinating across many teams. This can be slow and hamper experimentation. What if... we bring that raw event data right into the browser, making it, in effect "event driven"? That web component can be developed and iterated on at lightning speed. New components can be built without the need for new endpoints. With access to the raw data, frontend developers suddenly have the freedom to explore new, bold ideas without fear of the upstream complexity.

Performant Architecture for a Fast Gen AI User Experience

More and more developers are being asked to build Generative AI experiences into their web applications everywhere. However, the user's experience with Generative AI can sometimes be slow and frustrating. It’s been years since we would gladly wait over 10 seconds for a response to anything online. As AI processing gets faster, there are new limiting factors that could be negatively affecting your AI user experience.

In this talk, we will cover different ways to minimise laggy experiences in web applications when interacting with third-party Generative AI tools. We’ll be using a practical demonstration to show how you can reduce latency as we build one of my favourite sci fi gadgets, the babel fish.

Highly available, scalable, durable, and distributed asyncrounously long-running workflows are the core of Nous' switching business.

Having a powerful orchestration engine is critical and our journey has been a long one.

Come and listen to how and why we integrated Temporal.io as our core way to deterministically run our core business logic.

Zero is a new library for Local-first development that automatically replicates a subset of your Postgres database in your browser.

Zero is an excellent fit for Svelte. If I had to say in one line why Svelte feels magical, it's that there is no trade-off between developer experience and user experience - it makes it easier to write better software. Using Svelte, some problems just disappear entirely, and we are given tools to make other problems much easier to tackle. Zero extends this magic. Delays waiting for page loaders and form submissions disappear, and pages update instantly in response to changes made by other users. Zero is currently in Alpha but already in a state where it's quicker to build a feature with Zero than with regular Svelte loaders and actions.

In this talk I'll go over how to set up Zero, what it can do for you, how it compares to alternatives, why it's such a good fit for Svelte, and why I think that this is the first usable product in a new category that will change the way we write a lot of software.