I was lucky enough to have booked a vacation to the United States which coincided with RailsConf 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona. At PaperKite we try to send our team to the major conferences, such as WWDC and Google I/O for our mobile developers. In the backend team at PaperKite we often use Ruby on Rails to build mobile APIs, so the opportunity to attend RailsConf was one I did not want to pass up.
RailsConf had a great lineup of speakers this year who delivered some fascinating talks around all sorts of topics including code organization, team leadership, diversity, a wide range of tech including Elm, Elixir and React, and of course Ruby on Rails.
The conference is organised into tracks across five different rooms allowing you to mix and match your day however you wish. There was something for everyone and although it can be overwhelming at first, the format works really well.
In this post I’m going to touch on a few of the standout themes at RailsConf this year: Community and Leveling Up.