6th Galway Data Meetup

After a short break, the 6th Galway Data Meetup will take place this Wednesday July 20th with talks on data processing at scale. James Harkin (https://ie.linkedin.com/in/james-harkin-94ab163b), CTO of Element Wave (https://elementwave.com/) will explain how they identify trends in milliseconds using Couchbase and Elastic. Ismael Rivera (https://ie.linkedin.com/in/irivera), Lead Software Engineer at Altocloud will also share the experiences of refactoring a monolithic application and underlying data into a microservice-style platform.

Come early as the supply of pizza, beer and seats will be limited!

Agenda:

• 6:30pm: Networking and pizza

Talks:

• 7:00pm: Ismael Rivera - Refactoring to microservices

Ismael will explain the preliminary investment required before refactoring your monolith into independent microservices, and a series of steps, recipes and patterns to help you succeed when refactoring your application and your data into a microservices-style architecture.

Ismael Rivera, Altocloud

Ismael is the Lead Software Engineer at Altocloud. He joined the company when it was founded in 2013, where he focuses on architecting and building its platform. He's been a developer for over 10 years, having worked at the Insight Centre, NUI Galway and Telefonica. He is passionate about distributed computing, APIs, performance and tinkering with hardware.

• 7:30pm: James Harkin - Processing event triggers in milliseconds

James will provide an overview of the technology stack used by Element Wave to enable real-time targeting of mobile users at scale.

James Harkin, Element Wave (https://elementwave.com/)

James is Chief Technology Officer of Element Wave. With a background in high-capacity systems from Nortel Networks, real-time event processing has always been a keen area of focus. Now working with some of the largest sports betting companies in the world, Element Wave builds products that provide event-triggered personalisation for brands to market to their mobile users in real-time

Location:

Portershed, Eyre Square (behind the Meyrick Hotel)

Please refer to the link (http://portershed.com/) for the exact location.

Sponsors:

Pizza and drinks will be provided by Altocloud