Name: Conceptual Data Modeling: The Blueprint for Better Data Systems
Start: 2025-05-22T00:30:00.000Z
Location: Recursion

Hang out, talk shop, get help on your projects. We're focused on open source stuff, but that's not a rule, just a priority. Come work in the Forge space.

No speaker, no sponsor except Forge, and no food provided. Bring food or drink if you want, bring a laptop if you need it to work, and come hang out and hack!

This is the first hack night of the monthly two.

The Foundry The meetup for Hack Nights in Open Source

Clint Berry

Miriah Peterson

Tod Hansmann

Tucker

Kaleb Ercanbrack

Casey Rawlins

First Monthly Hack Night

Forge Utah

Hangout, Eat Pizza, Talk Zig.

Join Online:
https://twitch.tv/utahzig
https://www.youtube.com/@utahzig/streams
https://meet.jit.si/utah-zig (ping in the discord if this isn't up)

Join In-Person:
Vivint @ Lehi
3401 Ashton Blvd, Lehi, UT 84043

Goodies:
Digital Ocean ($100 or 60 days Free): https://m.do.co/c/18ec10e74dae
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DuckDNS: https://duckdns.org
Best Tools for Web Dev: https://webinstall.dev
Creeds of Craftsmanship: https://creedsofcraftsmanship.com

Utah Zig (Ziglang Ziguanas) in Lehi

AJ O'Neal

Jeff

Niles Salter

Talk Shop & Live Code (and Pizza!)

Ready to put your system design skills to the test with a twist? In this 90 minute design sprint, you and your team (2–3 people) will tackle a surprise system challenge revealed at kickoff. That’s right—no prep, no spoilers, just pure design adrenaline.

You’ll get a full requirements brief on the spot: what the system does, what it needs to accomplish, and what kinds of tech challenges (scalability? fault tolerance? consistency?) you’ll need to solve for. Then it’s game time.
Fire up your favorite diagramming tool (Lucidchart, Google Drawings, or whatever works) and get sketching. Map out your architecture, make the tough trade offs, and show us how you’d keep things flowing even when things go wrong.
To wrap things up, each team presents their masterpiece—highlighting your approach, your clever solutions, and maybe even a few “lessons learned.” Then we all vote for the most elegant and rock solid design.
**Bring:**

* A laptop for live collab diagramming
* Your best design instincts (or wildest ideas—we love those too)
* A sense of humor and a teammate or two (or come solo—we’ll match you up)

Oh—and yes, there will be **pizza and drinks** to keep your brain fuelled while you design.

Whether you're a distributed systems diehard or just curious how real world systems come together, you’ll leave with fresh insights, new friends, and bragging rights (if you win ![:wink:](https://a.slack-edge.com/production-standard-emoji-assets/14.0/apple-medium/1f609@2x.png)).

📢 Spread the Word: Feel free to share this event with colleagues and friends who might be interested. Let’s build a vibrant community where we can share knowledge and grow together!

🔗 Stay Connected: Join us in the [#saint-george channel in the Forge slack workspace](https://join.slack.com/t/forgeutah/shared_invite/zt-1mv0h7vdh-UvqDuazG1tGwL_yjUhgKew) for updates on upcoming events, and join our community to be a part of future discussions!

🗺️ How to find us: We will be in the boardroom in Building A on the 3rd floor, in the Small Business Development Center up on Tech Ridge.

Saint George Developers Meetup

Thomas Valadez

Chris Blount

Kyle

Warren

Anthony Wittig

Distributed Design Showdown

Dixie Tech College

At Weave, we faced the challenge of delivering low-latency, real-time analytics on massive datasets. Our old solutions simply weren't able to keep up. In this presentation, I'll cover how Weave is leveraging StarRocks, deployed on Kubernetes, to deliver both the low-latency requirements demanded by users and incredible cost savings. I'll also share some of the lessons we've learned along the way.

Presenter:
Ben Welker is a Staff Software Engineer at Weave. For the last 4 years, he's been focusing on messaging-related products (e.g. SMS, email, etc.). He has hands-on experience deploying and optimizing StarRocks in a Kubernetes environment, using it to power multiple messaging-related applications at Weave, and is passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technologies, like StarRocks, to solve complex data challenges.

In person at Weave and online Link: [https://meet.google.com/tto-pnic-qau](https://meet.google.com/tto-pnic-qau)
Forge Slack Link: [http://bit.ly/forgeut](http://bit.ly/forgeut)

Utah Kubernetes Meetup

Paul MacKay

Roberto Mello

Kyle Kartchner

Blake

Soo Choi

Ben S

Julio

Radha

Thomas Moore

Miguel Elizalde

Roman Kuprov

Joe Rivest

Augustine Tambe

Kurt 

StarRocks on Kubernetes at Weave

Weave

Conceptual data models provide the foundation for business architecture, analytics, machine learning, and more. Yet few companies invest the time to create one—and even fewer enforce it. The result? Siloed systems, mounting tech debt, and costly migrations.
In this session, we’ll:

* Define what a conceptual data model is and why it matters
* Show how it enables more efficient and aligned business operations
* Walk through a live demo of building a conceptual model from scratch

Whether you're designing your first data platform or modernizing legacy systems, this talk will give you practical tools to bring clarity and structure to your data architecture.
Join us on [slack](https://forgeutah.tech)

Schedule:
6:30pm-6:50pm pizza
6:50pm announcements
7:00pm speaker
7:45-8:30pm mingle

How to find us:
Enter by the East entrance on 400W (across form the Delta Center). If the door is locked ring the bell and you can be let in. Sign in at the security desk. **You can ask security for parking validation for Gateway parking garages, the North garage has easier access to the office.**

Utah Data Engineering Meetup

Ayla Khan

Jared Stout

Akshaya Chandrasekaran

Jake Anderson

Brandon Thomson

Robert Polski

Dan Powell

Dallin

Andrew

Arves Stolpe

Daniel Tullis

Minhoru

Joe Koch

Jordan Johnson

Alex Ahlstrom

Jonathan Northrup

Ethan Norgard

Kevin Wood

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