RethinkDB & Platzi at Heavybit

Join the RethinkDB and, recent YC grads Platzi, at Heavybit Industries in San Francisco for an evening of interactive demos, live coding, and great company. Learn how Platzi hosts live streaming classes on design, marketing and code, and how RethinkDB is making it dramatically easier to built realtime apps.

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The plan:

6:30pm - Food (not pizza!) & drinks, RethinkDB demos

Demos: Ask RethinkDB engineers questions about your projects or learn how to get started on RethinkDB. Shoot us an email if you have any questions beforehand (christina@rethinkdb.com)

7:00pm - Talks

Talk 1 -- Jorge Silva (7:00pm)

Talk 2 -- Platzi (7:30pm)

8:15pm - Wrap up & cupcakes :-D

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Talk 1 -- Jorge Silva: Realtime collaborative text editing with OT and RethinkDB

Jorge Silva (https://github.com/thejsj) is developer evangelist at RethinkDB. In his current position, he blogs, speaks, and does anything he can to help fellow developers. Prior to RethinkDB, he was a full-stack developer working mostly with JavaScript, Python, and PHP.

http://blog.hiphipjorge.com (http://blog.hiphipjorge.com/)
http://twitter.com/thejsj (http://tiwtter.com/thejsj)

Talk 2 -- Freddy Vega: Classrooms for 10k students: Effective realtime education

Classrooms for 10K students: Effective realtime education Platzi does massive realtime classes about technology and thanks to innovations like Node.js and RethinkDB it's able to do livestreaming and interaction with more than 10,000 people concurrently. Learn how Platzi grew from zero to 100K students and why realtime is a game changer in education.

Freddy Vega is the founder of Platzi: livestreaming classes about design, marketing and programming with realtime interaction among students and teachers. Platzi went through Y Combinator for Winter 2015.