Merge #2 (14 May 2015) - EngineYard + Elastic

Following a massive success from the first edition, and because you guys have been asking for the second, we're very (very!) happy to announce that PJ Hagerty (EngineYard) and João Duarte (Elastic) are speaking on our second meetup!

May 14th, Hotel Florida, Lisbon

Agenda

18:30 - Welcome, drinks

19:00 - Urban Legends: What You Code Makes You Who You Are, PJ Hagerty (EngineYard (https://www.engineyard.com/)), @aspleenic (https://twitter.com/aspleenic)"If you were a carpenter, would your skills at building be more important than the tools you use to build? Skills, right? Tools are just a means to an end. So why do developers think the language they use defines the problems they solve?"

19:45 - Break

20:00 - Climbing the Knowledge Pyramid with Elastic, João Duarte (Elastic (https://www.elastic.co/)), @jsvd (https://twitter.com/jsvd) "This talk will start with a brief introduction to the company now called Elastic: who/where we are and what we do. Then, describe how Logstash, Elasticsearch and Kibana play together, allowing you to make sense of, analyze and visualize that huge pile of strings our applications constantly dump to disk."

20:45- Networking (and probably more drinks...)

Speaker Bios

PJ HagertyDeveloper, writer, speaker, musician, and Team Lead of an elite band known as the Engine Yard Community Team, PJ is known to travel the world speaking about programming and the way people think and interact. He is also known for wearing hats.

João DuarteJoão is a software developer with a passion for Ruby, functional programming, distributed systems, tango and dogs. He worked at Portugal Telecom for 7 years designing and implementing event driven systems using mostly open source software. After finding about Logstash and using it for 3 years, he joined elastic to work on it full time.

Thank you's and Sponsors

Thanks Elastic (https://www.elastic.co/) for sponsoring drinks.
Thanks EngineYard (https://www.engineyard.com/) for sponsoring travel and logistics.

And...

We listened closely to your feedback and we're keeping the drinks and overall great vibe but we are working hard on improving the sound system!

We're very pleased to have you join us.

Questions? Feel free to send us an email: merge@rupeal.com

Thanks!