LA Ruby / Ruby on Rails Monthly Meetup

This month's meetup will be held at Stack Commerce

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Our mission is to enable people to organically discover products and brands they love on the publications and media they engage with every day.
Our native commerce solutions build new, incremental revenue streams for publishers, and empower our brand partners to reach relevant audiences.

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7:00 – 7:15 Open
7:15 – 7:30 Introductions
7:30 – 9:00 Presentations
9:00 – 10:00 Open / Networking

Presentations

We need (1) more presentation for this meetup! Each meetup features 3-4 presentations of 30 minutes each, and should pertain to Ruby / Ruby on Rails, or be of general interest to the Ruby community. Please contact Claudio (https://www.meetup.com/laruby/members/13339804/) if you are interested in presenting. Include a title, brief summary of your proposed presentation, and a brief bio about yourself. Please see past meetups for examples.

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PRESENTATION #1 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Introduction to GraphQL
by Brandon Black, Director of Platform Engineering for StackCommerce

Brandon is an experienced software engineer currently working as the Director of Platform Engineering for StackCommerce in Venice Beach, CA.

Leveraging over a decade of experience building developer-facing APIs, distributed software systems, and high-volume mission critical scalable backend services, he's now working modernize the StackCommerce platform with a focus on next-generation solutions for scalability and service oriented architecture. Brandon is a strong supporter of the local developer community and a firmly believes in contributing to the open-source software eco-system.

Past roles include GitHub, Twitter, MongoDB, Facebook, Roambi and MySpace.

https://linkedin.com/in/brandonmblack
https://github.com/brandonblack
https://twitter.com/brandonmblack

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PRESENTATION #2 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Introducing Starting from Scratch Series: How to Begin ?
by Anna Mendoza of curve

How do we start projects from a blank slate? This talk covers the
planning stages of an E-Commerce Rails project and the choices
that are generally made by my team. We're introducing this as a
series, where we follow this project from beginning to end.

Designer Who Codes, has worked in both enterprise and small design shops on east & west coast. Working now as curve collective. Parking

Street parking can be tough in Venice. There's a lot across the street from Stack Commerce that's not too bad. Will be updating this as we get closer to the meetup.