SD Ruby Monthly Meeting

FEATURED TALKS FOR DECEMBER:

Emma Castor - "Managing High Volume Data Imports"

When you have a large data set it isn't always easy to move it from Point A to Point B. Fortunately, there are some great tools that large data downloads and uploads manageable in a Rails environment. We'll walk step-by-step through the process of pulling down data from AWS and pushing it to a database on a Heroku application, and also discuss how rake tasks, Net::HTTP, and the Heroku job scheduler can make life easier.

Mark Siemers - "The Magic of Crystal: Why every Rubyist should consider picking up the Crystal language."

A walk through the crystal language and the amber framework, highlighting how easy it is to learn - coming from Ruby. The benefits of the language will also be covered - speed, compile-time static type checking, and method overloading.

LIGHTNING TALKS:

Vincent Eng - "Memory Bloat: A True Story"

A follow up to last month's featured talk by Tales Chaves. Details of a real scenario encountered on the Instant Ink team involving memory bloat, and an overview of what tools we used to find it and how we fixed it.

Krista Morrison - "One Year In"

Lessons learned by a coding newbie and boot camp grad after one year on the job.

We're always open for people to share lightning talks. Feel free to sign up here: http://bit.ly/1Nsq9g8 (Google Form). Lightning talks are 5 minutes and a great chance to dip your toes in if you've always wanted to talk at SDRuby, but haven't had the chance to yet.

RAFFLE

We'll be giving away a few ebooks, software licenses, etc, using our super fun Rafflr!

AFTER PARTY

After the meeting, we'll head out for a round or two of drinks at Half Door Brewing Company, sponsored by ZEAL!

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DIRECTIONS

Meetings are held at LEARN Academy downtown (704 J Street), at 7:00pm, on the first Thursday of the month. Metered parking downtown is free after 6pm or 8pm, depending on the area, so double-check the meter before you leave without paying. There are also several paid parking lots nearby, if you so choose.

SPONSOR OR SPEAK AT THE NEXT MEETING

Wanna talk at our next meeting? Have a topic you want someone else to talk about? Interested in sponsoring? Email me at krista.k.morrison@gmail.com, and we'll get you on the books.