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A live developer storytelling night in San Francisco — eight 5-minute tech talks covering everything from GraphQL and CDNs to UX, security, and realtime APIs. Hosted by HackerNoon, sponsored by PubNub and GitHub.
HackerNoon Dev Stories brought San Francisco's developer community together for an evening of sharp, technical 5-minute talks — the kind loaded with real-world lessons, clever solutions, and honest engineering stories.
The night was introduced by HackerNoon Founder and CEO David Smooke and MCed by COO Linh Dao Smooke, with eight speakers covering ground from GraphQL through the lens of hip hop (Brian Douglas, GitHub) to how a CDN saved a hosting bill (Austin Pocus, HackerNoon), security vs. obscurity (Emanuele Cesena, Pinterest), realtime APIs (Jordan Schuetz, PubNub), feature fatigue in UX (Lily Chen, Apollo.io), and productivity hacks in modern text editors (Pranava Adduri, Rubrik).
All talks were recorded and published on HackerNoon. The event was made possible by sponsors PubNub — building realtime data infrastructure for developers — and GitHub, where people build software.
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