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David Larrabee

David Larrabee

Director of Engineering / National Grid

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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A developer with a variety of experience in a number of languages and technologies over the past 25+ years. When developing javascript is my go to, but these days These days javascript is my go to, but I've got battle scars from victories (and defeats) while adventuring in open world of development.

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • React
  • ruby on rails
  • ReactJS
  • NextJS
  • Remix

Overall organization change starts at hello

Most people have heard leadership is about enabling people to achieve more than you could achieve individually, or often referred to as being a force multiplier. Not all managers are leaders and not all leaders are managers. Unlock that change in your team by focusing on building trust and stronger relationships, it starts with hello and continues to evolve and add new challenges and growth each day.

Add sanity to your content management story

Todays web applications are complicated. They might have inventory of items for sale, graphs and charts based on internal or external data - and need to be able to change quickly. Let's look at sanity as a way to manage empower our content teams to modify and add content, without requiring them to control ALL the content.

Experiment Design - Soup to Nuts

Our goal in building websites, and web applications is delivering value to our customers. You've created a hypothesis of what will solve a customer problem - but how do you validate it's success? Define your success criteria and examine the impact on the users that have been exposed to the change. With starting with the customer problem, and measuring success towards that goal, you can quantifiably measure the positive impact or rollback changes by seeing a decline in performance.

Build better websites with Remix

So many options out there today to build better websites. You could client render in react only, pre-build with systems like gatsby, power server and client rendering with NextJS - let's check out the (not so) new kid on the block - Remix.

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Taking your JS to the NEXT level

Leverage the power of Next.js In your next Javascript project. Get the power of statically or server rendering your content, automatic tree shaking, and hot module reload right out of the gate just to name a few things. Spend less time webpacking, and more time producing the products your customers are looking for.

Getting your Tensors flowing in JS

Artificial Intelligence isn't just for python anymore - let's wet our ML appetite using the versatility of javascript.

David Larrabee

Director of Engineering / National Grid

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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