Boston Code and Coffee

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Everybody will check in at the ground floor security desk before heading up to the 4th floor. Please bring a government-issued ID for check-in.

Code and Coffee is an inclusive, informal co-working session. People of all skill levels attend, and we love it that way. Some people (optionally) bring projects to work on, and some come and (also optionally) socialize the entire time. We encourage everyone to attend our variety of workshops and events we host each meetup, but it's entirely up to you to just come in and hangout!

Feature Talk:
TBA

The Intro Circle

Near the beginning of the event (12:30 pm), we do a standup in a circle:

• We first announce organizer announcements, updates, and logistics

Round 1 - (7 secs max):

• Your name
• What you can help others with
• What you would like help with
• Job opportunities you're hiring for

Round 2:

• Community events you wanna plug. If none, that's cool too.

After the introduction circle, everything is self-organized. We sometimes have FEATURES in a nearby room; checkout those events on Meetup as well.

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Community Discord - come hang out before and after!:

Please RSVP ahead of time and bring a government-issued ID for check-in.

It's time for a deep dive into system design. In this session, we'll explore how asynchronous messaging, queues, and background tasks operate within distributed systems. In today’s scalable computing environments, it’s often impractical for servers to complete tasks instantly or in a single operation. That’s where asynchronous processing comes in: by defining tasks as messages, we can store, process, and remove them only after successful execution.

To bring these concepts to life, we'll walk through a practical example — automating Instagram posts. We'll examine how the Instagram API works, create and dispatch messages using the Symfony framework, schedule message processing with Linux cron jobs, and trigger email notifications using Amazon Simple Email Service (SES). We'll also briefly explore Celery, Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Redis as alternative tools. By the end of the talk, you'll gain both theoretical insight and hands-on skills you can apply to real-world business scenarios. This session is open to all skill levels, though basic familiarity with REST APIs, Symfony, and Linux will be helpful.