Bio
Srushtika Neelakantam is a Developer Advocate for Ably Realtime. She is a passionate tech advocate, with a keen interest in real-time and web technologies. She loves spending time fiddling around with tech and then simplifying that for others by speaking or writing about it. She is a co-author of “Learning Web-Based Virtual Reality” and supports the open web by volunteering with Mozilla’s Tech Speaker and Reps programs.
My Talks
A fresher's guide to DevRel
DevRel can mean a lot of things. Even though a lot has been said about what the role involves, we seldom hear what it takes for one to be part of a DevRel team. In this talk By the end of this talk...
Building an app like HQ trivia - concepts and considerations
In this talk, we’ll run through all the concepts involved with an HQ style app like communication protocols, scalability, distributed systems, etc. Then, we’ll go through a design pattern to see ho...
Javascript’s new ‘old school’ programming - Let’s typescript.
Javascript goes old school by adding a compilation step - welcome Typescript! This talk is all about why Typescript came into existence and how to Typescript your Javascript applications.
Leveraging JAMstack for realtime data
Much confusion exists around what kind of websites can fall under JAMstack. These sites can be served directly from a CDN without needing an origin server. Does this mean you can't have dynamic dat...
Making IoT work with serverless functions
With apps becoming increasingly data-heavy and event-driven, it’s not only necessary to scale as needed but do so within mere milliseconds. In this talk, we’ll look at making IoT work with serverle...
Mixed Reality: Zero to Hero in 30 min
This talk will be a quick run-through of the Mixed Reality (MR) concepts, i.e both Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), but specifically from a web developer’s perspective.
Simulating dedicated game servers using NodeJS worker threads
NodeJS worker threads have opened doors to exciting implementations on the server-side. Multiplayer networked games, among others, make a really good candidate for CPU intensive applications.
In t...
Understanding the realtime ecosystem.
It's 2017, the time of data-driven realtime applications. This talk will walk the audience through the major concepts associated with realtime technologies such as data-sync, pub/sub, websockets, e...
Web Based Virtual Reality - made terribly easy
Virtual Reality is a technology used to create Virtual experiences. But most of the developers do not have any idea about it’s development due to lack of knowledge of WebGL. My talk will introduce ...
Why microservices are still such a big hit?
Microservices and their evolution has benefitted a lot of applications. But what about those who are still unsure of moving to a microservice oriented architecture?
This talk will look at some of...
Why would you not add WebHooks to your API?
The tech world is increasingly becoming event-driven.
This brings us to the fact that adding WebHooks to your own APIs has become an absolute necessity. In this talk we’ll see why WebHooks are lov...