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Johnny Wey
Lead Principal Engineer with MapVine
Before coming to MapVine, he functioned as the lead engineer on the Common Services Tier at Time Warner Cable. This tier provided services and a common API for everything from streaming video to scheduling billing orders and had over a dozen constituent applications. Combined with other customer-facing portals, the traffic on sites Johnny was responsible for was well into the millions of requests per day. Prior to working at Time Warner Cable, Johnny helped create the primary OSS at Dash Carrier Services resulting in a VOIP platform that powered the nations leading next generation emergency network.
Johnny lives in Denver with his wife and son. He enjoys riding his bike and playing music and volunteers monthly at a local recovery organization in the north Denver area.
Presentations
WebSockets Overview
Ever wanted to send a realtime "push" message from a server to a client running in a browser? Send messages from one client to another? Write realtime games and other demanding applications using JavaScript?
One of the most exciting new additions to the suite of technology collectively known as "HTML 5" is an official WebSocket standard. This finally allows full duplex bi-directional communication between a client and server over TCP.
However, the technology is still new and rapidly changing. In this talk, Johnny will explain what a WebSocket is, how it works, how to implement it on browsers that don't natively support it, and how it relates to other technologies and platforms such as HTTP long polling, Comet, Flash Sockets, mobile, and JSONP. He'll also discuss the different types of server implementations, scaling strategies, and how a it can be integrated into an existing application.
Intelligently Organizing Large JavaScript Projects
Using the same techniques we've learned over the last decade of Java and other OO languages, find out how to think about and organize a large JavaScript code base intelligently.
It often only took one or two lines of JavaScript to implement that site counter we were all so proud to show off a decade ago. Now, creating advanced web applications requires literally thousands of lines of complex JavaScript and, with the popularity of Node.js, the server side is equally daunting.
We know how to handle big projects in Java, Ruby, Python, and the like. We know how to organize our code and use frameworks to help the process. But how do we apply that knowledge to JavaScript?
In this talk, Johnny will explain and demonstrate tools, practices, frameworks, and patterns that work to making large JavaScript applications understandable, maintainable and fun!
