Gerard Gallant
Gerard Gallant is the CIO of Dovico Software. He also maintains their hosted infrastructure, has built out their DevOps solutions, and is the Lead Software Architect for two of Dovico's three products. When not at work, you'll still find him coding and researching as he has an insatiable drive to learn. As a huge fan of WebAssembly, he was fortunate to have the opportunity to write a book on the subject: "WebAssembly in Action" (https://www.manning.com/books/webassembly-in-action).
Montreal 2024 sessions
Creating a Slack bot to turn AWS services on or off
English session - Beginner
A number of AWS services charge by the hour but most services needed for development or testing are only needed during work hours. If it's only needed for 40 hours a week, why pay for the extra 128 hours? At the same time, maybe you'd rather keep the number of people in AWS to a minimum. In this talk, we'll create a Slack bot that automatically turns off AWS services at the end of the day but allows employees to turn them on or off from Slack.
The State of WebAssembly
English session - Beginner
WebAssembly has been available in all major browsers, and Node.js, since 2017. Since then, additional features have been added and its use has expanded outside the browser to places like edge and serverless computing, containers, and IoT. It's even possible to leverage it from within your code! In this talk, you'll learn how WebAssembly works and about the new capabilities that have been added.
