About us
Started in 2008, we are a friendly, sharing, and relaxed Alt.NET user group located in the Sydney CBD. We're a home for passionate developers who are always looking for better ways of building awesome software. We strive to cover as many different topics that we think are interest to our community, and we're not restricted to .NET (We're Alt.Net after all)
Meetings are on the last Tuesday of each month, starting at 7pm.
Meetings are online mostly with the occasional in-person event, and we're streamed live on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/sydneyaltnet
You can see previous recordings at:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9Xpa1vnzjXPqLG8eGqD6cEOToq5PvHcR
We also give away 2 JetBrains licenses at every talk as a long-standing tradition via a quiz at the end.
If you're a first-time wannabe speaker who is looking for a place to present, we provide a safe environment where you can embark on your speaker's journey. We can provide coaching and guidance prior to the presentation, if that gets you there! If you are struggling with topics for presentations, we can help you in that department too.
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Jim Webber - The Pub-Time Parliament
·OnlineOnlineThis month, we are very lucky to have the renowned speaker and expert, Jim Webber, joining us from the UK, sharing his entertaining insights and knowledge on scalability and distributed computing.
The Pub Time Parliament
Imagine a busy pub on a Friday night. It’s crowded, lots of people are talking at the same time. They’re all exchanging information with each other which makes tiny changes in their brains. Some folks are taking it easy on the drink, a few are a bit tipsy after one too many beers, and my mate Stevo is plastered, falling off his barstool. Classic Stevo. Now imagine trying to get this crowd to agree on something when they can’t even agree on which footy team is the worst this week and some of them can’t remember their own names.
In comparison you’d think that getting a bunch of computers to agree on something, say a simple number would be pretty easy. Computers can do way smarter things than agreeing upon a number, right? Sadly not. Computers are often in various states of being wrong or crashing. Much like a bunch of drunks they all want to talk at the same time, and they’re confident they have the best opinion.
How have we have built such incredible systems on such a flakey foundation? In this talk we will visit classic consensus algorithms and see how they provide benefits of correctness and fault-tolerance for systems but at the price of reduced scalability. Then we’ll explore some new research which aims to provide both correctness and scalability for distributed systems. The talk will be interactive - you may need a drink yourself afterwards.
Besides the usual Jetbrains giveaway, we're excited to be giving away Programmable Tickets as an extra treat.
https://www.programmable.tech/Stream at: https://www.twitch.tv/sydneyaltnet
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Past events
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