SoCal Piggies February meeting

Hello everybody,

Thanks to Danny Greenfeld, we are able to hold our meeting in February. Danny invited over Craig Kairsterns and Kenneth Reitz from Heroku, part of the Python team there.

Carlo Flores from spire.io offered to host the meeting at their offices at 7257 Beverly Blvd #210, Los Angeles, CA 90036 (it's on Beverly Blvd, just west of La Brea, between Alta Vista and Poinsettia.)

The meeting will be on Wednesday Feb 22 at 7 PM.

We have 1 presenter so far, Craig Kairsterns from Heroku. Here's the abstract of his talk:

"In recent years there's been rapid growth in application development area. This is in large part due to trends such as better tools to manage code and dependencies, external services to aid you, and due to the elasticity of the cloud. At Heroku we have a fortunate experience to interact with thousands of application developers and see their patterns and trends as well as help influence these. We will walk through some of the recent trends and emerging trends for the future in application development. These trends will make it even easier to scale up without significant overhead, further enable continuous deployment, and improve the ease to onboard other developers into a development team. Many of these current and emerging best practices will be highlighted on Heroku with live demos, but broadly apply outside the Heroku platform."

We are working on getting a second presenter.

Evite will sponsor the food and drinks.

Parking (from Carlo): "parking semi-tricky. There's plenty of street parking on Beverly and south of Oakwood (one block away). There's some gentleman running a parking lot across the street, though often times he's not there. Pretty typical LA parking."

Grig