Tech Talks: Legacy Systems, Caching, Dealing with Network Timeouts!
Details
Join us for our monthly gathering, hosted by Carbon Five (http://www.carbonfive.com/)! We will feature one short and two longer talks, sandwiched with networking and food and drink. Bike parking is available at the venue—please bring your bikes inside.
We are dedicated to a harassment-free experience for everyone. All attendees are expected to abide by the Fog City Ruby Code of Conduct (http://fogcityruby.github.io/).
We'll ask you to write your pronoun on your name tag. Want to learn more about why we do this? Read this guide from Bryn Mawr (http://www.brynmawr.edu/pensby/documents/AskingforNameandPronouns.pdf).
Submit a talk for a future meetup: Fog City Ruby CFP (http://www.fogcityruby.com/cfp/)
Need inspiration? Check out our topic wishlist (https://github.com/fogcityruby/organizing/wiki/Topic-Wish-List)!
Speakers of all programming and speaking experience levels are welcome to submit talks, and we're especially excited to host speakers who come from populations that are underrepresented in tech.
Schedule
6:30pm — Doors open, food, networking
7:00pm — Faun Winter: Break Class in Case of Emergency
Distributed systems are hard, due to the complexity that occurs once your system is remote. There are so many things that can go wrong. In this talk, we’ll examine one of these aspects: the network timeout. We will work through some failure cases for network transactions and explore patterns for handling these failures.
7:15pm — Emmanuel Delgado: Testing Legacy Systems
This is a short story about testing legacy systems, approaching them, inheriting them and keeping them alive. We are going to talk about the ugly parts, the best practices and what could be improved.
7:45pm — Megan Marquardt: A Practical Post Mortem of Bad Caching
Site's down. Out of memory errors. Identified the problem, fixed it, wrote a juicy post mortem. Come learn how to NOT implement caching in your Rails app. I'll talk about the various types of caches, forming the proper cache keys, and increasing site performance. Who doesn't love a classic 10x speedup?
8:15-9:00pm — More hanging out and talking to nice people
Speakers
Faun Winter is a Lead Engineer at Stitch Fix. He works on the customer-facing team on the public website and related apps. He taught himself Ruby on the job and has been working with it since 2007. In a previous life, Faun lived in a lean-to in the forest and hopped freight trains. Now he builds scalable and resilient systems for Stitch Fix to pay for his travel and photography habits.
Emmanuel Delgado moved to San Francisco ten months ago and has been consulting for US companies for about ten years. His coding life has been divided 50% by maintaining legacy systems and creating the right solutions in PHP, Java, Perl and mainly Ruby.
Megan Marquardt has been coding since high school, developing professionally for eight years, and enjoying magical unicorn start-up land for two years. She loves talking about coding and encouraging anyone and everyone to pick it up.
Sponsor
Thanks to Carbon Five (http://www.carbonfive.com/) for sponsoring Fog City Ruby!
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