About Will Farley

Will Farley joined Amazon in 2016. As a Senior Frontend Engineer, he has lead multiple projects within Amazon Retail that have impacted over a million Amazon Sellers and even more Amazon Customers. Will is experienced in designing and building enterprise JavaScript applications and build tools. He emphasizes the importance of staying on top of trends in frontend technology and has effectively introduced many new architectures to platforms at Amazon. An active open source contributor and maintainer, Will’s work on Service Workers and Cookiecutter has received praise from well known developer advocates including Addy Osamani and Daniel Roy Greenfeld.

Presentations / Workshops

Will Farley has been speaking about Frontend Technology across the world over the last few years. He has presented at conferences in Seattle, Phoenix, Edinburgh, Amsterdam, London, and Berlin. Topics range from Micro Frontends at scale, Service Workers and Web Sockets.

SeattleJS

Autonomy: Frontends as a Service (slides) by Will Farley

Will Farley has been presenting on the topic of Micro Frontends at the Amazon scale since late 2018.
In this talk, Will reviews challenges of designing, as well as examines patterns for implementing an architecture that allows teams to independently own features end-to-end, make their own technology decisions and manage release cycles independently.

WebDevCon EU Presentation

Zero Time to Load by Will Farley

Will demonstrates how developers can utilize Service Workers to create instantly interactive and engaging user experiences.

WebDevCon Workshop

Websockets at Amazon by Will Farley

Learn techniques for developing modern NodeJS packages while building a collaborative paint application using Socket.IO, Babel and Webpack.

Tech Talks

CSS Modules by Will Farley

Tech Talks

Writing CLI Tools in Node by Will Farley

Tech Talks

AWS Amplify and Sumerian Overview and Demo by Will Farley

Code Newbies Workshop

Intro to Javascript by Will Farley

Open Source

Author - Will Farley

SW Precache Webpack Plugin

Author - Will Farley

CookieCutter Webpack

Author - Will Farley

Workspace Resolver

Contributor - Will Farley

Workbox

Contributor - Will Farley

Create React App

Contributor - Will Farley

Storybook

Contributor - Will Farley

Karma Webpack

Contributor - Will Farley

CookieCutter Django

Projects

Senior Frontend Engineer - Amazon

Amazon A+ Content

Will Farley played the lead role in designing and developing a content creation framework to support ingesting brand content from over fourty thousand users a day that is published to several million products on Amazon.com each month. The framework renders over 50+ unique content modules used in multiple platforms including Seller Central, Vendor Central and an internal tool. It supports the creation of many types of content such as videos, carousels, hot spots, and other dynamic interactive content.

A+ brand examples:

Lead Developer - HZDG

HZDG Website

Lead Developer - HZDG

Mighty Organic

Books

Author - Will Farley

The Hidden Secrets of Javascript

In the beginning learning how to write code can be very intimidating but since you are reading this, you can congratulate yourself on being braver than all the people who gave up before they even started. Seriously, there are a lot. In this article we will cover setting up the fundamental tools that web developers of all skill levels rely on day-to-day. These are the very first steps you’ll need to take to begin creating websites on your laptop.

ISBN: 979-8671993134