Isa Silveira

The tech industry has a longtime history of cultivating heroes and epic stories of success. “Look how this tiny startup became an industry giant!”, “Did you hear Joe just got his dream job?”, “Learn how to ship amazing projects to production in no time!”. We’ve all heard stories like these and they are indeed very inspiring, but how come no one is talking about the ugly parts? Why aren’t stories of things that didn’t work out more common in tech? Why aren’t we more transparent about our experiences and what we learned from them?

In this talk, I’ll go through all the lessons I took from failing miserably at a software project, how that made me a much better developer and the importance of failure in the career of a software engineer.

2019

JSConf Budapest

Looking under the rug: the art of learning from failure

Learn about the super powers ClojureScript can add to the view layer, and the benefits of functional programming.

Clojure came along into our lives in 2007 as one of the most concise and powerful Lisps, and since them it's been widely adopted by members of the community. 

Recently, Clojure got a new friend called ClojureScript, which allows us to use Clojure to build robust and reliable front ends. 

Ever wanted to use a rich data structure set, macros and take advantage of the great performance optimizations present on the JVM? You got it! In this talk I'll go through the super powers ClojureScript can add to the view layer and the benefits of functional programming.