About the speaker: Jafar Husain is Netflix's Cross-Team Technical Lead and has 16 years of experience in the industry. He's currently a member of the TC39, the Javascript standards body designing the next version of JS. He specializes in building web servers and clients using functional reactive programming, and was the first user of the Reactive Extensions Framework. He's also the architect of Falkor, a RESTful data access framework that powers most Netflix clients. A highly-rated speaker, he has spoken about reactive programming at HTML5DevConf, YOW!, QCon, CodeMesh, and given Channel 9 interviews on the subject. He has also authored interactive training software to help developers learn about functional reactive programming. Talk given at Full Stack Fest 2016 (https://www.fullstackfest.com)