--- title: "Quick Recap: The First-Ever Tech Talk at Night" description: The first-ever Tech Talk at Night featured talks from HubSpot and Wayfair, and over 100 of Boston's product and engineering gurus. image: https://product.hubspot.com/hubfs/Tech_At_Night.png --- [Culture](https://product.hubspot.com/blog/topic/culture)[Product](https://product.hubspot.com/blog/topic/product) # Quick Recap: The First-Ever Tech Talk at Night [ Hannah Fleishman (she/her) ](https://product.hubspot.com/blog/author/hannah-fleishman) on Jun 10, 2015 ![](https://product.hubspot.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Tech_At_Night.png?width=333&name=Tech_At_Night.png)Last night, we hosted the first **[Tech Talk at Night](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tech-talk-at-night-tickets-17072603617)** here at HubSpot HQ.  Over 100 product and engineering gurus came out to hear from our very own [Ben Anderson](https://twitter.com/ben_anderson) on React.js and Wayfair's [Andrew Rota](https://twitter.com/AndrewRota) and [Matt DeGennaro](https://twitter.com/TheDeeg) on Tungsten.js. Two hours, three dynamic speakers, and dozens of carefully-crafted Pimm's cups later, we all had learned a few new names and front-end tips.   Every week, we have internal Tech Talks on interesting problems our team is solving. There's always a completely new perspective and topic on the table, from [chrome extensions](https://product.hubspot.com/blog/tech-talk-chrome-extensions) to [microcopy](https://product.hubspot.com/blog/microcopy-the-voice-of-your-product). We wanted to take this beyond our team and create a platform for Boston's engineering community to share the problems they're working on and hear what other companies are working on.  Cue Tech Talk at Night.  For this inaugural event, we focused on front-end frameworks. Andrew and Matt from Wayfair walked us through how and why they built [Tungsten.js](https://github.com/wayfair/tungstenjs) to turn on efficient DOM updates, and fast client and server-side template rendering. Wayfair is a highly scaled multi-page site that supports a broad range of browsers. They have recently open sourced their framework, and the slides from the talk are [here](http://www.slideshare.net/andrewrota/tungstenjs). The second talk of the evening was given by Ben, on our Platform-as-a-Service team, who presented on thinking like React and why "going with the grain" is beneficial. Having spent time in the trenches building React apps, Ben had 3 tips -- prefer functional idioms over OO, prefer stateless over stateful components, and chose clarity over brevity. His slides are available on ["React - Going with the Grain"](http://banderson.github.io/react-with-the-grain/). Behind the scenes, HubSpotters were whipping up summer cocktails (thanks to our MC Anthony's artistry) and serving up "yummy and healthy noms" (thanks, Lisa!) In true inbound marketing fashion, here's a recap of the evening as told by social media.  >   > > >   > > > > > > > > [lining up the bevvies for @hubspotdev #techtalkatnight](https://instagram.com/p/3uf6-Cgum2/) > > > > A photo posted by anna (@atperko) on Jun 9, 2015 at 4:17pm PDT >   > > > .[@AndrewRota](https://twitter.com/AndrewRota) + [@TheDeeg](https://twitter.com/TheDeeg) of [@WayfairEng](https://twitter.com/WayfairEng) kicking off Tech Talk at Night with a [#tungstenjs](https://twitter.com/hashtag/tungstenjs?src=hash) overview to a packed house! [pic.twitter.com/z35wcZ08zS](http://t.co/z35wcZ08zS) > > > > — HubSpot Product Team (@HubSpotDev) [June 9, 2015](https://twitter.com/HubSpotDev/status/608414854173569025) > > > We went with modularity - backbone, virtual-dom, mustache [#techtalkatnight](https://twitter.com/hashtag/techtalkatnight?src=hash) [#tungstenjs](https://twitter.com/hashtag/tungstenjs?src=hash) [pic.twitter.com/EWHbGloqR5](http://t.co/EWHbGloqR5) > > > > — Dan (@danieluhl) [June 9, 2015](https://twitter.com/danieluhl/status/608414345907830785) > > > "Relay - the 800lbs gorilla in the room...and it's not even born yet." - [@ben_anderson](https://twitter.com/ben_anderson) at [#techtalkatnight](https://twitter.com/hashtag/techtalkatnight?src=hash) [pic.twitter.com/dVC7AccVtW](http://t.co/dVC7AccVtW) > > > > — Andrew Rota (@AndrewRota) [June 10, 2015](https://twitter.com/AndrewRota/status/608427268432637953) > > > Really impressed with the noms and bevs at Tech Talk at Night [@HubSpot](https://twitter.com/HubSpot). Yummy & healthy! Missing [@bethdunn](https://twitter.com/bethdunn)...le sigh [pic.twitter.com/NAv3M3Hy9x](http://t.co/NAv3M3Hy9x) > > > > — Lisa (@thislisaperry) [June 9, 2015](https://twitter.com/thislisaperry/status/608408311935942656) > > > [@HubSpotDev](https://twitter.com/HubSpotDev) [#techtalkatnight](https://twitter.com/hashtag/techtalkatnight?src=hash) is my new favorite thing. Can’t wait for round 2! > > > > — Colby Rabideau (@colbyrabideau) [June 10, 2015](https://twitter.com/colbyrabideau/status/608443170645508096) > > Stay tuned for the next Tech Talk at Night! 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