Doug Sillars
Doug Sillars is a Senior Developer Relations Engineer at Orkes. He’s a Google Developer Expert and the author of O’Reilly’s “High Performance Android Apps,” Doug regularly speaks at conferences, and blogs at dougsillars.com when he gets a chance.
Doug’s career has spanned mobile application development, web performance, AR/VR, machine learning and video streaming and live streaming. He’s now focusing on the ‘backend’ helping developers build orchestrated micro services with Conductor.
Talks I've Given
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Managing Data Pipelines with Conductor
Featuring Doug Sillars
Data pipelines are a challenging part of working in data science. Netflix Conductor is a battle-tested workflow orchestration tool invented at Netflix to automate millions of microservice workflows. Using a workflow tool like Conductor as a part of your data analysis pipeline can help streamline...
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Building an ARt Gallery in the Browser
Featuring Doug Sillars
The world of VR allows you to build new 3D interactive spaces that you can fill with anything you want — like the art of the great masters. With new AR features, you can actually build the gallery in your own space — and just as easily swap out the art — all in your browser!
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Fast and Beautiful: Modern Image Delivery Techniques
Featuring Doug Sillars
The average mobile website page weight is ~50% images. Toss in the complication of thousands of differently sized screens, and it might appear that efficient delivery of images to every device is an impossible task. But all is not lost! In this talk, Doug will share with you some strategies to...
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It's Time To Stop Stalling: Video Streaming Performance and You
Featuring Doug Sillars
Video is one of the fastest growing mediums on the web and in mobile applications. Video files have been shown to increase engagement, and can be a great way to deliver your message quickly. (And who doesn’t love animated GIFs?)
frontend video-streaming video javascript nodejs angularjs open-source