Lunch Sessions
Interested in getting even more out of your Smashing experience? Our amazing friends from The Interledger Foundation and Storyblok are hosting a session to tell you everything about a topic in their field.
At lunchtime, just follow one of the volunteers in the red shirts. Grab some lunch, settle in, and listen to the talk filled with practical examples. Talks take about 40 mins, so after the session you will still have time to relax and mingle.
The Interledger Foundation — Web Monetization
Wednesday, October 9th at 1:30 PM in the Auditorium
Web Monetization, created by the Interledger Foundation, is an automated payment system from site visitor to site owner, initiated by the visitor. Each visitor sets their own hourly rate and their monthly total payment to all Web Monetized sites they visit combined — thus deciding what they pay to sites they visit. In this lunch session PPK will explain how Web Monetization works and why you should care.
A draft Web Monetization standard is currently under discussion in W3C’s Web Incubator Community Group. It may be coming to Chrome, behind a flag as an experiment. You can find more information at Webmonetization.org/docs.
PPK has been around for so long he’s become part of the web dev furniture. More recently he figured out that, if Web Monetization had existed when he ran QuirksMode, he would have made some money and avoided burn-out.
That’s why he joined the ILF to spread the Web Monetization word at this conference or another in order to make sure that web developers PAY for what they consume.
Pushing Boundaries to the Edge
Wednesday, October 9th at 1:30 PM in the Green Room
While the technology goes further and further, web development tries to get closer to the user. CDNs and web servers are evolving, and they now offer us the possibility to execute server-side logic without depending on a unique data center located in a specific place in the world. Let’s present the concept of The Edge. We will see how it works, and we’ll talk about Edge Functions. We’ll discuss why the main hosting providers are introducing this technology, and why different JavaScript frameworks are modeling their approaches based on Edge computing.
Facundo is the Solutions Team Manager at Storyblok. From Buenos Aires, Argentina, he has more than 15 years of experience in software and web development. He loves engaging with the dev community, speaking at events and conferences, and creating and sharing content.
