Realtime stress testing & React Native!

Hello impatient hackers! We're thrilled to have our Summer meetup in Palo Alto at the beautiful Epiphan Video office!

6:30pm - eat & social

7:00pm - Talk 1: Lev Walkin

WebSocket introspection and stress testing with TCPKali (https://github.com/machinezone/tcpkali)

Developing real-time services for massive scale is really fun. Part of the fun is making sure that you have a chance to enjoy the speed and reliability of your new service. TCPKali (http://twitter.com/tcpkali) is one of the tools that prevents you from having fun too often: it stresses your TCP-based service to no end, breaking your precious code along the way. TCPKali does that by efficiently driving gigabits of traffic and millions of connections from a single network host, emulating slow hosts and injecting failures. Let's go break some Node.js!

Lev Walkin is a Principal Architect at MZ (mz.com), the company known for its largest single world games Mobile Strike and Game of War, and which recently announced its real time RTplatform. Lev has a passion for open source and the code he has written in his spare time can be found in Cisco appliances, Mercedes Benz cars, and every Apple iPhone.

7:30pm - Talk 2: Devin Abbott

React Native & Developer Tools of the Future

Building mobile apps takes too long: between writing the same app twice for iOS/Android, several-minute compile times, and the app store review process, development can be slow and painful. React Native + new developer tools take us a long way toward a smoother, speedier development process that's a lot more fun.

Devin Abbott, @devinaabbott, is Co-founder & Engineer at Deco Software (https://www.decosoftware.com/)

8:30pm - All done, see you next time!

To suggest a speaker for a future meetup, please email: christina@rethinkdb.com and justin@fanout.io