NearForm
NearForm
NearForm provides software design & development skills and methodologies for organisations across the world, enabling them to embrace modern application, system and process development to sustain innovation. NearForm builds software that integrates digital technology into all areas of a business, helping our clients to improve the way they operate and the value they bring to their customers. NearForm brings particular expertise in delivering custom software solutions using open source tools, to ensure clients can future-proof their digital transformation initiatives, spend less, become more efficient and have the ability to implement their ideas quickly.
Our teams are leading the way in open, modern software, UX/UI design and problem solving. Located around the world we use our unique delivery model to simplify and solve complex business and technology challenges for global enterprises across multiple industry sectors. We use agile methodologies, DevOps and provide capability-building to deliver future speed and repeatable success for our clients.
We believe that legacy integration evolving together with modern technology unlocks the greatest opportunities for innovation. We understand the risks involved in moving from legacy systems and processes to a more open technology platform. Our proven methodology based on design-thinking, collaboration and validation ensures we identify risks early and can move quickly to deal with them. We are builders, thinkers, problem solvers. Whether it’s building an optimum solution to migrate & integrate Conde Nast’s global disparate CMS or delivering EY’s self-directed online learning platform for SMEs, NearForm’s expert team of developers, UX designers, architects, software engineers and DevOps wizards have proven capabilities to quickly take your ideas from concept to reality.
NearForm is hiring
Our remote-first culture means our people are widely dispersed but we form a tightly knit team. Truly committed to shaping a better world in all that we do, and building on our open source origins, we promote the sharing of thoughts, knowledge and ideas. Hence the reason we’re at FullStack London!
If you like the sound of NearForm and would love to work with us, we are growing our team of Senior Node/React developers and DevOps Engineers. Visit our Careers page to find out more.
Join NearForm at https://www.nearform.com/careers/
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Interface Incantations
Featuring Jo Hanna Pearce
According to the witches of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, most magic is simply headology. This talk will mix literary references and outline the headology of interface design, from basic charms and illusions that fool and entice us to the unforgivable curses that can shape our thinking and...
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Keynote: Better Together: Building Social Experiences for Immersive Technologies
Featuring Liv Erickson
The ecosystem around virtual, mixed, and augmented reality presents opportunities to fundamentally change the way that you think about technology - and its impact on you. Never before have you had the access to meet instantly with people around the world and collaborate in shared spaces, step...
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React Native at Skyscanner: The Good Parts
Featuring Karan Thakkar
This talk takes a look at what the React Native setup at Skyscanner looks like and how they maintain and scale it from an infrastructure point of view. Here are some of the things that are involved and questions that Karan plans on sharing the answer to:
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Keynote: Bringing WebAssembly Outside The Web With WASI
Featuring Till Schneidereit and Lin Clark
Earlier this year WASI - the WebAssembly system interface, was announced. With this system interface, WebAssembly can be used outside the browser in a portable and safe way.
As Solomon Hykes, co-founder of Docker, said, "If WASM+WASI existed in 2008, you wouldn't have needed us to...
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PWAs on Steroids
Featuring Trishul Goel
PWAs bring the best of both mobile and native apps to user. PWAs equipped with service workers provide features like offline availability, push notifications etc. Now with modern webAPIs, PWAs are beyond the browsers; in Hardware. Consider turning bulb on/off with your PWA, sounds cool? Lets...
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Lightning Talk: Coding: You Either Love Or Hate It, Or Why You Should Open-Source For Real.
Featuring Evgeny Poberezkin
Coding is hard but you still love it. But you also hate it on some days. Humans are unpredictable so you chose to work with code and computers. But code outcomes are becoming increasingly unpredictable and to succeed with coding you need to succeed with other humans. Open-source contribution is a...
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State Management in Angular: From Facades to NGRX And Back
Featuring Cornelia Rauch
Unlike classic web applications, single page applications have an application state – and this must be managed to avoid inconsistencies and data binding cycles. That’s why developers of single page applications must deal with state management. In this session, you’ll learn more about this topic...
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Lightning Talk: Lessons Learned Converting Snyk Codebase to TypeScript
Featuring Liliana Kastilio
Over the past 6-8 months, Snyk has been converting their entire codebase to TypeScript, Lili would like to share the reasons, motivations and lesson learned with others thinking to do the same.
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Merging Realities : Using the Web to Bring the Internet of Things to High End Augmented Reality
Featuring Philippe Coval and Fabien Benetou
What is real? What is virtual? What is augmented? What if none of that mattered but only how you could merge all those for your need?
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We Need to Talk about the Main Thread
Featuring James Milner
JavaScript is known for its single threaded nature; in the browser this means much of your code you write as developers runs on the same thread. This includes everything from input handlers, to fetch requests to updating the DOM. This is a lot of things to keep up with!
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