Monthly Meetup - Pete Mauro, Drone Racing & VR and Dave Gullo, Scaling Node.js
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Monthly Meetup -
Pete Mauro - Drone Racing and VR
Dave Gullo - Scaling Node.js : Hybrid use of Scala/Akka and Node.js
Agenda:
• 7:00pm: Food & Networking
• 7:15pm: Intros & Sponsors
• 7:30pm: Speaker #1 - Pete Mauro - Drone Racing and VR
• 8:00pm: Speaker #2 - Dave Gullo - Scaling Node.js : Hybrid use of Scala/Akka and Node.js
• 8:30-9pm: Wrap-up/Networking
Venue: Contact Us for Venue Ideas
Parking: Available at the Venue
Drone Racing and VR: Learn How Drone Squad and After Now are Building Next Gen Drone Racing ExperiencesPete Mauro, Founder, Drone Squad // Philippe Lewicki, Founder After Now
LA Based Drone Squad has built the fastest growing Drone Racing community in the world with pilots in over 70 countries. Learn how they teamed up with After Now to deliver an App and connected drone racing hardware and get an inside look at what's next.
The team will demo an indoor FPV drone race and demonstrate how to use Javascript to create virtual reality viewer with threejs and mozvr.
About Pete Mauro: Mauro is a customer and product-focused entrepreneur with 2 decades of experience delivering consumer software products in technology-driven start-up and growth environments. He has been building and flying drones since 2012.
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Scaling Node.js : Hybrid use of Scala/Akka and Node.js
In this talk I am going to share the scaling challenges that we have encountered over the past few years. Our two main technology stacks are node.js / postgres / angular for our front-end and API, and scala / akka / finagle along with apache spark for our bidder and data stack. As a new company we have huge scaling issues. In this talk we will discuss what we are doing to address scaling high volume / low latency systems (500K QPS responding in < 30ms) and how you may use some of these techniques to solve similar challenges.
About the Speaker:
Dave Gullo is a hacker and entrepreneur who has been building the web since 1994. His roles have included founder / entrepreneur, software and systems engineer, human computer interaction, and technology team leader.
Some of the interesting projects he has been involved with include: bootstrapping one of the web's first online snowboard shops, building large-scale unified messaging systems, engineering print-to-web systems and free-form full text searching of careers and autos, optimizing the performance of in-flight entertainment systems, building rental management systems for ski resorts, building innovative shopping experiences for ecommerce like "size-based shopping" and "car-figurators", "tracking the online trackers" by automating thousands of concurrent browsers and observing network activity and data collection, and silver-plattering technology and top-notch hackers to post series-A companies in the Silicon Valley.
Today, Dave is the Co-Founder and Fire Chief of Technology (and Lead Arsonist) at VideoAmp where he hacks and prototypes new technology and manages the technology team's growth and culture.
About the Company:
VideoAmp aims to reinvent the media ecosystem with innovative technologies. We enable advertisers and content owners to transact seamlessly across all screens.