Hi all! Thanks to Kaloian Manassiev who is an Engineering Lead at MongoDB and is opening an R&D center in Barcelona which is pretty cool, but also he'll be speaking at the Barcelona C++ Meetup 9th of October. This hopefully means a Meetup for us as well because we are kindly allowed to virtually join their Meetup (via big screen with audio+video)! We just have to find a location with a screen + sound, but I hope we do. :)

Please contact one of the organizers or leave a comment if you think your company would be interested in hosting this Meetup!

If you are close to Barcelona it makes sense to join directly via their Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/C-Programmer-Meetup/events/264988138 -- For convenience I have copy- & pasted their description:

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MongoDB is the most popular database for scalable modern applications
and at its core is a large open-source [ https://github.com/mongodb/mongo ], cross-platform C++-17 code base. One of the most important features of the database platform is its Distributed Systems offering, which provides seamless scaling, high availability and performance, and abstracts difficult synchronization problems from the users, giving them the “illusion” that they are connected to a single server.

This talk will introduce MongoDB, will give some facts about its engineering team and codebase and then will explain some of the interesting distributed algorithms which have been implemented for data balancing and distributed transactions. The talk will be given by Kaloian Manassiev an Engineering Lead at MongoDB, so please bring all your doubts and questions with you. You are welcome to "grill" the speaker :-)

Proposed schedule for now:
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18:00 - We all gather, have some Pizza & drinks
19:00 - We join the BCN Meetup via A/V link
20:00 - Q&A followed by final drinks & chat

Location: Copernica!
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Huge thanks to Copernica for being able to help us out with hosting the Meetup! For those that haven't been here yet, their office is located conveniently close to Amsterdam CS.