Cambridge Area Julia Users Network (2nd of April) - "Curling with Julia"

We will welcome
Philip Tellis who will give a talk. The location will be "Seminar Room D463 (Star)" at the Stata Center at MIT (https://www.na-mic.org/wiki/Meeting_Locations:MIT_CSAIL_Star). We will start at 6pm, with the talks+questions taking roughly 1 hour (after which people are welcome to stay and socialise). Pizza will be provided. Any questions can be asked at the #boston-local channel at the Julia Slack.

Note that there will be a sign-in sheet at the venue, please fill this one in (needed for pizza funding).

Curling with Julia (Philip Tellis)
Julia already has LibCURL packaged with it, and has all the packages behind JuliaWeb to do HTTP, so why did we need another HTTP package built on LibCURL?

In this talk I’ll go over our motivation for writing CurlHTTP, and talk about some of the cool features that differentiate it from other libraries available in Jula. We’ll look at the CurlEasy and CurlMulti interfaces and show how easy it is to do things like mutual TLS (mTLS) authentication.
CurlHTTP is in the Package Registry and is available on github at https://github.com/bluesmoon/CurlHTTP.jl

About Philip
Philip Tellis is a geek who likes to make the computer do his work for him. He is the Principal RUM Distiller at Akamai and the author of the boomerang JavaScript library for measuring the Real User performance of websites. He currently uses the Julia programming language to study the impact of web performance on user behavior.