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Thomas Sample

101 Solidus SEO Tips: The Ultimate Guide

A deep dive into the business value and practical application of SEO techniques and principals for your Solidus store. We'll dig into actionable advise that actually works, formatted into 101 ways to improve your rankings and increase your sales.

Ryan Cromwell

Making the Leap to Tech Lead

You’re a solid developer. You’ve built software people use, and it works well for them. Now, you want that next step—to lead a team who builds software. Join me to gain an understanding of the Tech Lead role and the trails, skills, and experiences that shape a successful Tech Lead.

Lunch (1.5 hours)

Ernesto Tagwerker

Escaping The Tar Pit

Nobody wants to inherit a project that reeks but here we are: Stuck in the tar pit. How can we get out? Could we have avoided it in the first place? In this talk you will learn how to use a few, great Ruby gems that will guide you out of that sticky tar you are in.

Taylor Scott

Taking Solidus From Development to Production

This talk would be focused on deploying a solidus application to a multi-container environment on Elasticbeanstalk in AWS. The stack would be a rails application running beside an nginx web server. This will all be executed through GitLab CI but other CI platforms will be similar.

Break (30 min)

Alessandro Desantis

Extensions Are Dead, Long Live Extensions!

What is the true place of extensions in the Solidus ecosystem and what does their future look like? In this talk, I will walk you through the challenges Solidus extensions currently face and how we have decided to tackle them.

Peter Berkenbosch

Solidus Internals, an adventure through less known features

Exploring some of the less known features and configuration hooks in Solidus and how you can use these to extend and customise your storefront while still keeping Solidus as vanilla as possible.

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Joel Saupee

Solidus API: From PWAs to Native and Beyond

In a world of JavaScript and native apps, how does Solidus fit in? We’ll discuss the highs and lows of using the Solidus API, and how we built an extensible JavaScript SDK enabling us to develop Solidus backed PWAs, native apps, and more.

Jen Luker

Building Accessible Careers

There has been a huge push for accessibility to be part of external websites, but what about the internal tools we use every day? I’ll go over the reasons internal accessibility is important, where to start, and how small improvements can have a big impact on increasing diversity in our workplaces.

Lunch (1.5 hours)

Braden Douglass

Breaking Up The Band Monolith With EQ

Emotional intelligence is sometimes missing from the software engineering realm. However, how can we as engineers and managers utilize it when feeling the pain of a monolithic application design? How do EQ markers equate to when and how a monolith should be deconstructed? The talk will explore the fundamentals of emotional intelligence in an engineering team and how to utilize tools from the 'emotional intelligence tool-belt' to read when a team is ready to deconstruct their monolith.

Lightning Talks

Break (30 min)

Jason Swett

Quickly and Safely Refactoring Legacy Code

Refactoring can make code easier to understand and safer to work with, but refactoring itself is often risky and time-consuming. In this talk Jason shares techniques he’s used to refactor code speedily while minimizing the chances anything breaks in the process.

Sean Denny

Community Driven Solidus

The management of Solidus has largely been nailed down since the dissolution of Stembolt, but what does this new nonprofit, community-driven structure means for the platform long-term? This talk aims to address that questions - and provide an explanation as to why this will benefit the platform.

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