Agenda
6:30 Food/Beer/Networking
7:00 Intros/Sharing of Tips and Tools
7:15 Talks
• Talk 1: Caching and HTTP Acceleration with Varnish (Hotel Tonight)
• Talk 2: Introduction to Docker + Tips on using Docker in Rails Applications
• Tech Talk: GitHub repo discovery via Sourcegraph (Quinn Slack/Yin Wang)
• Raffle: 3 free tickets and 10 discount tickets to Hackfit SF
8:30 End
Sponsors
Location: Blurb
Food/Drink: HotelTonight
Talk 1: Caching and HTTP Acceleration with Varnish
(The best traffic is traffic that never hits your servers)
Harlow Ward from Hotel Tonight will be talking about Varnish, an HTTP accelerator, and how to use it effectively within a Rails application. The talk will address how to configure HTTP headers and use cache invalidation as well as touch on writing VCL (Varnish Configuration Language). Harlow will also talk about setting up a free developer account with Fastly (a hosted Varnish service) and provide a look at using Surrogate-Keys for advanced cache invalidation.
About the Speaker
Harlow Ward is a developer at Hotel Tonight. Prior to that, he was at thoughtbot (creators of Paperclip, Factory Girl, Shoulda, Airbrake, and more). He's co-author of "Ruby Science," and enjoys writing technical articles focused on sharing development techniques throughout the community. (@futuresanta)
Talk 2: Introduction to Docker + Tips on using Docker in Rails Applications
Docker is a new open-source tool that makes it easy to use Linux Containers. Brian Morearty will give a basic introduction to Docker and do a whirlwind walk-through of creating a Docker container with a Dockerfile.
He will also provide a number of Ruby- and Rails-specific tips on how to get the most out of Docker when using it to deploy Rails applications.
About the Speaker
Brian Morearty is co-founder of Hands on with Docker, Docker's only official training partner, as well as a software consultant and an entrepreneur. He was a Staff Software Engineer at Intuit for 12 years, was the Tech Lead for the QuickBooks team, and created and taught classes on Ruby on Rails, Flex, and more.
Despite his name, he is not Sherlock Holmes’ evil arch-enemy. He is a frequent contributor to the #docker IRC channel and the docker-user mailing list, helping people with questions on all things Docker.
Tech Talk
Quinn Slack and Yin Wang from Sourcegraph will show off a tool for finding Rails (and Ruby) documentation and usage examples, and demonstrate how you can use it to stay on top of new Rails features and best practices
About the Speakers
Quinn Slack is co-founder of Sourcegraph, an open source code search and community site. Prior to Sourcegraph, he worked at Palantir and was first engineer at Bleacher Report. He has contributed to many open source projects including go-github, cURL, tcpcrypt, Avro, and TLS-SRP implementations in Chrome and Firefox.
Raffle
Hackfit has given us 3 free tickets to give away! We'll be raffling them off but you must be at the meetup to win!
About the Sponsors and Hosts
Blurb is a company and a community that believes passionately in the joy of books – reading them, making them, sharing them, and selling them. (@BlurbBooks)
HotelTonight is the leading last-minute hotel booking app, currently available in over 250 destinations across the globe. For consumers, HotelTonight offers incredible convenience and amazing value at quality hotels. For hotels, HotelTonight is a marketplace to fill last-‐minute rooms that would otherwise remain empty.
Download the app for free for iPhone, iPad, and Android at www.hoteltonight.com/now.
February 23
Thanks to the organizers and to the speakers. I really enjoyed the Docker talk!
I guess most of you know Lonely Planet -- we're launching 3 new crazy apps soon and are looking for Ruby developers of all levels who want to join us. Send me a message if you're interested: [masked]
February 21
Great talks on Varnish and Docker. Thanks to the speakers and the organizers for an awesome event.
Btw, here's links to the Ruby Sublime plugin and Sourcegraph in general if anyone's interested. Look forward to hearing your feedback!
https://github.com/sourcegraph/sourcegraph-sublime
https://sourcegraph.com/
February 21
Cool meetup, thanks to the speakers and organizers.
Also, I'm looking for a gig. I'm a Junior-to-Mid level Rails engineer, currently freelancing: dpmehta02[at]gmail[dot]com
Thanks!
February 21
These are the slides from my talk on using Docker with Rails: https://speakerdeck.com/bmorearty/intro-to-docker-plus-tips-on-using-docker-with-rails-apps
February 21
Great topics! Thanks for putting on the Meetup!
Also if you are looking for a new gig - please contact me at [masked] - all kinds of fun stuff going on over here!
February 21
Thanks to all those who came out. If you won a ticket/code please contact Robert at [masked]
February 20
I especially liked the talk by Harlow Ward about Varnish. And I liked my own talk about Docker. :-)
February 20
Sorry, I can't make it.... can't find the "Change your RSVP" button...?
February 20
Does this event need a location? Geekdom might be available to host if that interests anyone.
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Great talks all around, I never stop hearing good things about Varnish or Docker, it was nice to learn a bit more about each of them. First I'd heard of Sourcegraph, which also looks interesting, I'm curious to see how far they can go statically analyzing a language as insanely flexible as ruby. Anyway, I was the guy who was looking for part-time/contract work, I thought I should post here as well. If you're interested in talking more, here's my contact info: http://curtis.io/contact.html