Materials from Azov Developers Meetup 2015

The Azov Developers Meetup 2015 conference was held on December 12 in Taganrog. We finally finished the video editing and publish all the materials.



So, in order:

Dmitry Adov, Technical Director
Introduction
Some information about the conference and its organizer - Arcadia's company (figures and facts, projects, technologies, office in Taganrog).


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Alexander Shevnin, Team Lead, .NET / FrontEnd Developer
ASP.NET 5
Sasha spoke about ASP.NET 5, a new cross-platform open-source framework for building modern web applications using .NET.





Vasily Khatuntsev, .NET / FrontEnd developer
Meteor under the hood
Vasily spoke about one of the full stack JavaScript platforms of Meteor, whose vocation is to speed up and improve the life of web application developers. Well, at least so say its creators.




Tatyana Maximova, testlide
Automated UI testing - how to prepare it correctly
Tatiana gave a brief overview of the organization of automatic testing processes: assessing the need for automation, processing documentation, and selecting tools. Practical issues of automatic deployment of application components and reporting on test results were also discussed.




Pavel Krynetsky, PHP / Java developer
Enterprise PHP Applications
A brief insight into the history of the development of PHP as a programming language, from its inception to the present day, an attempt to trace the expansion of the scope of the language and identify the reasons that contributed to this, an overview of the capabilities of modern PHP as a programming language and a stack of technologies for creating powerful enterprise-level software solutions .




Olga Kazina, Project Manager
Customer management: non-standard cases of relationships with customers of outsourcing projects
Olga shared her rich managerial experience: how to achieve mutual understanding, avoid global conflicts and establish partnerships with different types of customers in managing outsourcing projects: from pilot (1-3 people) to large projects with distributed teams from different countries (20-30 people) .




Victor Kotov, iOS developer
Mobile development: Native, Hybrid, Cross-Platform - what to choose?
Currently, there are three approaches to mobile development: Native, Hybrid, Cross-platform.
Each of them has its advantages and disadvantages, so in a situation where there is a choice, we need a balanced approach. The report reviewed the main solutions currently on the market (including Xamarin 4 and ReactNative), and also gave recommendations on choosing the optimal approach depending on the project.



Thank you to all participants and speakers, see you in 2016!