Tech Talk Videos from Google I/O
This year's
Tech Talk sessions at Google I/O cast light on a few key ingredients
necessary for developing great software and applications, including faster methods and
techniques, a re-envisioning of how to do things better, down to a robust architecture that is
designed to scale and sustain. At the same time, developers themselves need to successfully
manage the growth of new ideas in a collaborative environment, while remembering to put the
user and customer first.
Kicking off Tech Talks at Google I/O this
year, Steve Souders challenged developers to
build faster, high-performing
websites and presented a few best practices and tactics to these ends. Dhanji
Prasanna and Jesse Wilson
revealed the fast, lightweight Guice
framework and how it is used at Google to power some of the largest and most complex
applications in the world. Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith walked the audience through the
Bespin project at Mozilla Labs in their
session, expanding on the project's core motivation to
re-envision how we develop software and to provide pointers on what it takes to build bleeding
edge applications for today's browsers. Jacob Lee
unveiled the architecture behind
Mercurial on BigTable, a new
version-control component of
Project Hosting on Google Code that was
built to host hundreds of thousands of open source projects.
Brian
Fitzpatrick and Ben Collins-Sussman ran a duet of talks that turned the focus from the tools
to the developer. First, they discussed the
myth of the "genius programmer" in the social dynamics of
collaborative software development. In a subsequent
session, they talked about the lost art of putting the user first
and "selling" the software in an exciting and honest manner through usability and
uncomplicated design. Keeping with the focus on developers and what motivates developers to
action, we invited Brady Forrest to run an
Ignite session at Google I/O, featuring
nine speakers with deeply interesting perspectives on
technology. Topics ranged from growing up a geek, big data and open source, and the law of
gravity for scaling, to life as a developer at the frontlines with a humanitarian
agency.
Update: David actually used a brush, not a pen. We thought
adding a thumbnail of his work would help him forgive our mistake :)
We also wanted to share one of our favorite tidbits from Google I/O -- a series of ink on
paper portraits by David Newman, an ex-courtroom sketch artist (now enthusiastic
technologist!). David put his brush to paper at the conference floor and drew wonderful
sketches of a few of the folks at I/O - we're delighted to share a few of his
portrait sketches.
We
hope you enjoy this year's interesting combination of perspectives at the Google I/O Tech
Talks series,
now available online. Watch the blog
next week as we bring live more videos and presentations from
the breakout session tracks at Google I/O!
By Min Li Chan, Google Developer Products
This year's Tech Talk sessions at Google I/O cast light on a few key ingredients
necessary for developing great software and applications, including faster methods and
techniques, a re-envisioning of how to do things better, down to a robust architecture that is
designed to scale and sustain. At the same time, developers themselves need to successfully
manage the growth of new ideas in a collaborative environment, while remembering to put the
user and customer first.