Bio
Hunter spent the last three years running Heroku’s Node.js platform and is currently the engineering manager for Heroku’s languages team. He’s a JavaScript junkie and C# novice who enjoys building, talking about, and thinking about games, physics engines, graphics, and microservices. He publishes on the Heroku Engineering Blog and at PlayfulJS.
My Talks
Playing with Pixels: Photorealistic 3D in JavaScript
I’ve always loved everything Pixar creates, so when I learned just how simple their basic algorithm is, I was floored. “I could build something like this!” I thought - and I was right.
Production-Ready Node.js
Node comes with unique engineering requirements - robust node apps tend to handle processes, concurrency, signals, monitoring, and state in similar ways. This workshop explores what it takes to mak...
RabbitMQ Without the Complexity
RabbitMQ, the famous microservices message bus, brings enterprise-grade speed and fault tolerance to your microservices. It's also incredibly complicated, scaring many potential adopters away.
Thi...
Stop JavaScripting like it's 1999
JS in 2017: Last year’s best practices have become today’s anti-patterns as we experience fundamental shifts in the language. With so many outdated learning resources out there, it's hard to know i...
Wine & Design with JavaScript
Are you ready to draw some happy little trees? In this workshop, we'll build a paint app with JavaScript... and a little wine for inspiration.