Introduction to SurrealDB: A Modern Database for the Future

Getting Started with SurrealDB is a 3-part online workshops series hosted by Women Coding Community in collaboration with SurrealDB. During these hands-on workshops, Caroline Morton - software engineer and senior research fellow at SurrealDB - will demonstrate SurrealDB's functionality and use cases, both as a traditional relational database, as well as highlighting the additional features and benefits of a multi-model database.

This session will introduce SurrealDB and examine its core advantages in comparison to traditional databases like PostgreSQL and MongoDB. We will explore how SurrealDB handles the management of multiple database environments and facilitates communication between them, making it well-suited for complex, modern applications.

The discussion will also touch on SurrealDB's architecture, built in Rust, and its support for multi-modal data, enabling the use of different data models within a single system. Additional built-in features such as vector search, full-text search, and the ability to embed machine learning models directly in the database will be analyzed to provide insight into its capabilities and potential use cases for developers.

Agenda:

• 20:00 - 20:10 Introduction to Women Coding Community
• 20:10 - 21:10 Tech Talk by Caroline Morton
• 21:10 - 21:30 Q&A

Speaker: Caroline Morton | LinkedIn
Dr. Caroline Morton is a software engineer, epidemiologist and co-author of Async Rust Programming book.
A Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Health Data Engineering at Queen Mary University London, Caroline writes software tools and data pipelines for the Genes and Health initiative, the world's largest community-embedded biobank. Simultaneously, Caroline is pursuing a Ph.D. in Synthetic Data Generation for health data research, sponsored by SurrealDB. She also leads Yellow Bird, a London start-up changing medical training with its virtual emergency room product, Clinical Metrics.

Host: Adriana Zencke Zimmermann | LinkedIn
Adriana is a Software Engineer passionate about designing and implementing scalable and efficient data processing systems. With over 15 years of experience in the tech industry. Adriana is a volunteer and also a Director at Women Coding Community. Her goal is to empower women and support them with personal growth and career development.

Co-Host: Nevena Verbič | LinkedIn
Nevena is a Software Engineer experienced in working with diverse technologies such as C, C++, C#, Python, JavaScript, HTML, PHP and Java. Working for an ISO 9001 certificated company she had the opportunity to learn the best practices in software development and project organization. Nevena is improving Python, Java 21, and Spring Boot skills.

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SurrealDB
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