Tech Talk @ The Zebra

Hey Coders,

This month's tech talk is brought to you by The Zebra (https://www.thezebra.com/about/). The Zebra is the nation's most comprehensive comparison website for car insurance quotes, giving drivers instant access to the massive car insurance market, and saving drivers hundreds of dollars per year.

Speaker
Jessica Ross is a senior software engineer at The Zebra, but is actually a well-crafted Twitter bot. In her spare time, she enjoys powerlifting, electronics, art, and trolling Reddit.

Talk
Concurrency vs Parallelism; Processes vs. Threads.
We'll start by taking a deep dive into these concepts with examples of strengths and pitfalls of each, as well as introduce event loops along the way. We'll then show a practical application using the web framework Tornado in Python 3, discussing examples of both the capabilities and potential drawbacks using this asynchronous networking library.

Participants
This event is intended for all women (trans and cis), trans men, and genderqueer folks who are interested in attending, as well as their guests.

Food
Pizza and drinks sponsored by The Zebra.

Parking
Street parking.

Location
The east side entrance of the building is closed for construction, so even though the address is 98 San Jacinto Blvd, attendees can navigate to 29 Brazos St. and enter by the red awning next to Forthright (a restaurant). Text Mansi at[masked] if you have any issues finding the entrance.

Contact
98 San Jacinto Blvd #2000
Contact
Mansi Puri[masked]

Code of Conduct for Women Who Code Events
WWCode is a non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring women to excel in technology careers. We are committed to our mission statement and equally committed to providing a harassment-free experience for everyone regardless of gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, ability, physical appearance, body size, race, ethnicity, age, religion, socioeconomic status, caste or creed. We do not tolerate harassment of event participants in any form. Event participants violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled permanently, at the discretion of the event organizers, which in most cases are members of the WWCode leadership team.

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