Hands-On with SurrealDB: Exploring Key Features in Practice

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 provide a practical exploration of some of SurrealDB’s key out-of-the-box features. We’ll focus on fundamental operations such as CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete), schema definition, and SurrealDB’s unique "Get functions." Additionally, we’ll take a look at the Surreal Store demo dataset to see how these features can be applied in real-world scenarios.

The session will emphasize hands-on learning rather than covering every feature in detail, giving participants an opportunity to engage with the database directly. We'll also take time to reflect on the pros and cons of the features we explore, providing a balanced understanding of where SurrealDB excels and where it may have limitations.

Agenda:

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

Speaker: Caroline Morton | LinkedIn
Dr. Caroline Morton is a software engineer, epidemiologist, and co-author of the Async Rust Programming book.
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.

Speaker: Alexander Fridriksson | LinkedIn
Alexander has been with SurrealDB from the start, being employee number 5. He is passionate about storytelling with data and sharing lessons learned working across Analytics, Data Science, Data Engineering, and Consulting.

Host: Sonali Goel | LinkedIn
As a Senior/Lead Engineer at Yoox-Net-a-porter, Sonali brings over 14 years of experience in the technology industry, specializing in crafting solutions that prioritize reliability, flexibility, and scalability. Her focus is on managing and constructing extensive-scale e-commerce solutions.
Sonali is committed to empowering women in technology and the workplace. As an active member of the DEI women's network at her organization and a leader in the Women Coding Community, she strives to support and advance diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives that uplift women in the field.

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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Empowering women in their tech careers through education, mentorship, community building, and career services is our mission. We provide workshops and events, connect members with industry mentors, foster a supportive community through meetups and conferences, and raise awareness for more inclusive industry practices.
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