Tech Talks - Spring Edition

Welcome back everyone to the latest edition of the Ruby Brigade Tech Talks! Once again Nulogy has graciously offered to host and provide food for this meetup, and we thank them for their continued support!

Schedule:

6:00 - Arrive at Nulogy
6:30 - Talks begin
8:30 - Talks end and we can continue at a nearby pub

Talks:

## Infrastructure as Code with Terraform - Art0uro Pie, Nulogy

Many companies manage all or part of their infrastructure via manual processes and/or very inflexible scripts. These manual processes are slow, error prone, hard to debug and impossible to validate. Documentation on the infrastructure is often missing or not up to date. Test and Production environments tend to differ as more manual changes are applied to them. The knowledge of how to change the infrastructure is only in a few people's heads, making it hard for developers to deliver the functionality they need.
All these problems can be solved with code because code is powerful.

In this presentation, you will learn:

The benefits of using Infrastructure as Code
Terraform basics: providers, variables, outputs, data, resources, interpolation
How to launch a web server using Terraform

## Scalable, Performant Code - Haris Mahmood, Shopify

Performance and code optimization are key for scaling an app. This talk aims to highlight a few techniques and practices that can help you write better code today.