Event Sourcing and Weather – Winter Meetup

After a long hiatus, we're excited to return with some fantastic talks. We'll also have some pizza and drinks (of the non-alcoholic and alcoholic variety).

Building an Activity Stream with Event Sourcing – Ian Jenkins / @jenko
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A lot of web apps these days have this idea of an activity stream. 'Alice added a new blog post', you know the kind of thing. In this talk we'll present a case study of how such a feature was implemented on a real life community website. We will go through how EventSourcing helped solve the problem along with ElasticSearch and a queueing solution. It will present some of the challenges faced and how we got around them.

Ian's a Principal Developer at Box UK.

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Under the Weather – Craig Jones / @Craig_K_Jones
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At the start of February the BBC relaunched its weather sites and apps after a ground up rewrite. Craig will give you a glimpse under the hood and talk about what its like to undertake a rebuild of applications that serve 20 million people a week and provide up to date forecasts for the globe at thousands of user requests per second. What was hard? What tech did we use? Why is the weather always better everywhere else?

Will feature mentions of microservies, aws lambdas, isomorphism, and will end with an attempt to answer the eternal question: Can I make my website faster when it rains?

Craig is a Principal Developer at the BBC.

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More talks to be announced soon!