Performance without Compromise

Netflix is reinventing how people watch movies and TV shows. The Netflix UI Engineering team uses JavaScript extensively to deliver and innovate the experience used by over75 million members in over 190 countries. Our members use our UIson hundreds of devices including TVs, gaming consoles, phones, tablets and PCsto watch more than 125 million hours of TV shows and movies per day.Watch our JavaScript Talks on YouTubeRead about our work on our Tech BlogFollow Netflix UI Engineering on Twitter

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<H2>Performance Without Compromise</H2>
What does Netflix’s new React-based architecture for devices have in common with RxJS version 5? Both take an unflinching stance on performance. At this event, we’ll be giving two half-hour talks on these topics.
React.js for TV UIs: In the first talk, we’ll share how we achieved a completely declarative, React-based architecture that’s fast on the devices in your living room. We'll talk about how and why we adhered to principles like no refs, no observation, no mixins or inheritance, immutable state, and top-down rendering. We’ll share techniques we used to hit our tough performance targets, while not compromising the architecture.
RxJS Version 5: In the second talk, we'll explain what RxJS is, and why we use and love it. We'll share the motivations behind a new version of RxJS and how we built it from the ground up with an eye on performance and debugging. We'll talk about the techniques that we used to squeeze as much performance as possible out of this already great library. 
 
About the Speakers
Steve McGuire (<A TARGET="_blank" HREF="https://twitter.com/s_m_mcguire" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@s_m_mcguire</A>) is a Senior Software Engineer on the UI Platform team at Netflix. In his free time, he enjoys experimenting with game and graphics dev, rust, and machine learning.
Ben Lesh (<A TARGET="_blank" HREF="https://twitter.com/BenLesh" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@BenLesh</A>) is a Senior Front-end Engineer on the Netflix Developer Experience team. He’s also the project lead for the redevelopment of RxJS.
 
Schedule for the Evening
6:00 - 6:30pm: Registration in the lobby of Netflix Building D 
6:30 - 7:00pm: React.js for TV UIs with Steve McGuire
7:00 - 7:30pm: RxJS Version 5 with Ben Lesh
7:30 - 8:30pm: Food, drinks and socializing
Reminder: This event is in our new Netflix building (building D) at 121 Albright Way. It is reasonably close to our old building where we've had our past Netflix JavaScript Talks events. Please drive to the back of the building where there is plenty of parking, and you'll see signs for registration on the backside of building D.
 
Netflix JavaScript Talks
This is our sixth talk in a series of Netflix JavaScript Talks where for the past few years we've aimed to bring the developer community together and share some of the many things we've learned along the way as we continue to evolve the Netflix user experience across devices. All of our past talks can be found on our <A TARGET="_blank" HREF="https://www.youtube.com/c/NetflixUIEngineering" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Netflix UI Engineering YouTube channel</A>.

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