07-30, 16:20–16:30 (UTC), Purple Track
A quick tour de force of Genie's most important features, now packed into the stable, mature, performant, and resilient v1 API. The attendees will discover how Genie can help them to productively build and deploy powerful web applications with Julia.
With over 900 stars on GitHub and consistently ranking as one of the top 10 most starred Julia packages, Genie is a testament of Julia's great potential as a language for the web. After 5 years in development, over 1000 commits and 50 releases, Genie reaches the v1 milestone as a mature, stable, performant, and feature-rich Julia web development framework.
The talk will touch upon Genie's most important features, providing a starting point for Julia developers interested in the development of web applications. We will go over features like the HTML templating language, JSON rendering capabilities, input handling, caching, built-in Docker integration, the plugins ecosystem (Genie Authentication and Genie Autoreload), and the built-in deployment adapters for the major hosting platforms.
IT professional working at the intersection between Web Development, Data Science, and Machine Learning. 20 years of experience leading agile teams in developing real-time, data-intensive, web and mobile products.
Public speaker and enthusiastic contributor to Open Source projects, with a focus on high-performance web development. Creator of Genie, the highly-productive Julia web framework. Author of "Julia Programming Projects" (Packt, 2018) and co-author of “Julia Programming Complete Reference Guide” (Packt, 2019).
MSc. Advanced Computer Science. MSc. Computing. Certified ScrumMaster.