Stefan Tilkov

Stefan Tilkov is a co-founder and principal consultant at innoQ, a technology consulting company with offices in Germany and Switzerland. He has been involved in the design of large-scale, distributed systems for more than two decades, using a variety of technologies and tools. He has authored numerous articles and the book, REST und HTTP (German), and is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world.

Appearances

Episode 116 Preserving the Architecture of the Web

There’s a lot of pressure these days to use a JavaScript framework to create every website. “Which one is best?” people ask, “Which one should I use?” Stefan Tilkov joins Jen Simmons to talk about the architectural style of the web, and how to understand to best create an application on the web. What is the role of each of the technologies available?

In This Episode

  • Constraints and Qualities of The Web
  • The Hypermedia format
  • The REST model
  • The ways that we’ve forgotten the architecture of the web before in the past
  • The three core web technologies: HTML, CSS, JS, and the separation of concerns
  • The idea that HTML is not good enough for real programmers
  • Angular, Ember, React — how does a team choose the best tool?
  • The role of JavaScript: to extend the user agent’s capabilities, and do things that cannot be done in HTML or CSS