Boston Node #11

On Thursday December 12th at 6:00pm, Boston Node is back again. Join us at Kyruus - 51 Melcher Street in Seaport - for an always amazing evening of tech discussions, food, drinks, and networking.

This month we look forward to hearing from Cris Oliveira from Kyruus, Dan Caddigan from Indigo, and Rishi Patel from Liberty Mutual.

Excited to be back again, especially in Seaport, and grateful for our location host Kyruus this month. Looking forward to seeing you all there!

~ Brian @codemouse

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Event opens at 6:00pm, talks to start around ~6:45pm

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StateCharts for complex flows (might be the right tool for the job), with Cris Oliveira (Principal Software Engineer @ Kyruus)

Sometimes you need a statemachine. And most of the times a statemachine becomes too complex to handle. That's where statecharts come in. The original paper defined statecharts as “A visual formalism for complex systems” (Harel, 1987). StateCharts are an improvement on statemachines and can be a useful tool for not just coding part but also to align stakeholders on a complex application flow.

Cris O is one of the engineers at Kyruus trying to help connect patients with an appropriate provider. Sometimes a patient may end up seeing the wrong provider or wait too long for an available appointment because of faulty scheduling systems. We're fixing that.

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Warthog: building a GraphQL API Framework, with Dan Caddigan (Sr Director of Software Engineering @ Indigo)

Building a framework is hard. Why build one with so many options out there already? Come see Dan (author of Warthog - https://warthog.dev/
) talk about the whys and hows of building a framework.

Dan is a Sr Director of Engineering at Indigo Ag leading the build-out of Indigo’s Grain Marketplace: an app that connects farmers to numerous grain buyers, getting them more money for their hard work. Prior to moving to management, still at Indigo, Dan was a software architect getting Indigo set up inReact+TypeScript+GraphQL front-ends and Node+TypeScript+GraphQL back-ends. In his spare time, Dan enjoys contributing to open source, playing tennis and drinking wine.

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Rest needs some Rest, with Rishi Patel (Software Engineer @ Liberty Mutual)

Are you currently building Restful services? Ever heard of GraphQL? Ever wonder why people are raving about GraphQL? Wonder no longer, come here Rishi speak about the major impacts about switching to GraphQL can have on your business.

Rishi is a software developer that has worked at Liberty Mutual over the last 2.5 years in an agile environment. His primary focus has been working in our customer facing claims applications that are focused in a React, Graphql, and Node stack. He enjoys the challenges of constructing complex system in a collaborative enterprise space. In his free time, he enjoys playing basketball and watching the C’s.