![[Uber Open Summit 2018] Using Service Workers for Performance @UberEngineering](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OKUKUMxqlKk/maxresdefault.jpg)
Uploaded November 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Service Workers are best known for allowing web applications to work offline, but they can also make your online pages load a lot faster. During Uber Open Summit 2018, engineer Angus Croll presents an overview of Service Workers and demonstrate why they're your friend if you care about performance.
Service Workers are best known for allowing web applications to work offline, but they can also make your online pages load a lot faster. During Uber Open Summit 2018, engineer Angus Croll presents an overview of Service Workers and demonstrate why they're your friend if you care about performance.
![[Uber Open Summit 2018] Using Service Workers for Performance](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OKUKUMxqlKk/mqdefault.jpg "[Uber Open Summit 2018] Using Service Workers for Performance
Service Workers are best known for allowing web applications to work offline, but they can also make your online pages load a lot faster. During Uber Open Summit 2018, engineer Angus Croll presents an overview of Service Workers and demonstrate why theyre your friend if you care about performance.")
![[Uber Open Summit 2018] Using Presto @ Uber](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OXcIgd-0leE/mqdefault.jpg "[Uber Open Summit 2018] Using Presto @ Uber
During this Uber Open Summit 2018 tech talk, engineer Zhongting Hu discusses how we leverage Presto in our robust Big Data Platform.
Learn more about Uber Open Source: https://uber.github.io/")
![[Destination:Web] Building a Great Developer Experience: The Road to Parcel Version 2](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Osuwky6rRiA/mqdefault.jpg "[Destination:Web] Building a Great Developer Experience: The Road to Parcel Version 2
In this tech talk delivered during a November 2019 Destination:Web Meetup, Adobe engineer Devon Govett discusses the origin of Parcel, a zero configuration web application bundler, how it distinguishes itself from similar tools, and whats in store for Parcel version 2.")
![[Uber Open Source] Building City Cores with H3](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PutOhe8HVNU/mqdefault.jpg "[Uber Open Source] Building City Cores with H3
During a May 2019 meetup in San Francisco, Uber data scientist Marie-Camille Achard and data analyst Camilla Nawaz explain how we better understand our marketplaces city cores (in other words, where user demand is densest) with H3.")
![[Destination:Web] The Design Pattern That Shall Not Be Named](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Q1YXEqCl650/mqdefault.jpg "[Destination:Web] The Design Pattern That Shall Not Be Named
Uber senior software engineer Kris Kowal discusses the design pattern that shall not be named. In other words, a lesser used but sublime and surprisingly durable design pattern, that strangely has no name. It does not appear in the Gamma et al Gang of Four book bearing the title Design Patterns, though you might see it there in many guises. One might call it “functions that accept callbacks that oddly return things” or simply “burritos, but in space”.")
![[Visualization Nights] Exploring Myriahedral Projections in WebGL - Nico Belmonte](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/QL22TY3i-rw/mqdefault.jpg "[Visualization Nights] Exploring Myriahedral Projections in WebGL - Nico Belmonte
In this presentation, Uber’s Head of Visualization Nico Belmonte gives an overview of Myriahedral Projections by showcasing an interactive WebGL version of Jarke van Wijks influential paper on the subject.")
