Wellrailed September - Adapting code and observing releases

Wellrailed meetups are back for 2024! As usual, we'll listen to some talks then share some pizza and a drink together!

Everyone is welcome - whether you're just starting out or a seasoned professional! While we're primarily a Ruby/Rails meetup, many of the topics will be applicable to all tech stacks.

Sponsors
A massive thank you to Flick Electric (and their parent company, Z Energy) who are letting us use their office space and Axos Systems for sponsoring the cost of pizza & drinks.

Flick Electric shakes up the electricity market in Aotearoa and makes things better for Kiwis, their wallets, and the planet. They're putting pressure on the Electricity Authority and Government to fix the broken market.

Axos Systems provides a targeted set of cloud-based services that help energy market participants operate effectively and efficiently in a complex and changing world. The energy sector in NZ processes well over 3 billion pieces of market reconciliation information every month. We're a part of making that happen and we're a part of making sure that process is economically sustainable for our customers.

Talks

• Landscaping Tricks: Safely adapting code to develop insight
  Matthew Gray
  Applied techniques for applying Martin Fowler's prepatory refactoring through stacked pull requests. Commentary on improving your design by thinking about tests differently, and some hot takes on VCR.
• Safely deploying a large release
  Monty Anderson
  Talking about a large release, and how they made it safe with their testing approach, observability setup, use of flagging, and deployment/rollback strategies.

Q&A
In 2024 we won't always have a Q&A with the host company - but if you have questions for the Flick team they'd be more than happy to answer them on the night.

Schedule
Doors open at 5pm and we'll kick off at 5.20pm.

• Introduction
• Job Openings
• First talk
• Second talk
• Food + Drinks

Talk recording
If you can't make it, the talks will be recorded and will be available on the Wellrailed YouTube channel.

We won't be live streaming this event but we aim to get the recording available within a few days.

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About Wellrailed
Wellrailed is a Wellington based Rails meetup which has been part of the Rails community for over 10 years! Wellington is home to many companies who use Ruby on Rails so we're doing bi-monthly meetups hosted by a different company.

This is your chance to learn some stuff, network with your peers and learn more about how various local companies use Rails!

If you're interested in doing a talk or hosting an event, please get in touch with co-organisers Jordan Crawford or AJ Esler via Meetup.com or via the RubyNZ Slack.

Code of Conduct
At Wellrailed events we expect attendees to follow the Ruby NZ code of conduct - see ruby.nz/code-of-conduct