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With Travis Thieman (GameChanger), Dan Applegate (SkillShare), John Bennett (Huge), Brian Guthrie & Jim Gedarovich (Etsy).
Wed, Apr 16, 2014 @ 06:30 PM   FREE   HuffPost Code, 770 Broadway, 6th Fl
 
     
 
 
              

    
 
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For this month's Meetup, we will have several micro presentations, lasting from 5 to 10 minutes each. The idea is to introduce a breadth of topics to CDNYC, and to also allow people to speak on more focused ideas that might not require a full 30 to 45 minute presentation.




Sign-in & networking at 6:30, talks at 7.

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Naming Your Herd (Travis Thieman)

Naming things is hard. You put a lot of effort into automating your config to eliminate snowflake servers, but you now need an automated naming scheme. We'll discuss a simple (and fun!) way to solve the naming problem.


Travis Thieman is a backend and operations engineer at GameChanger. He is the author ofDagobah, a Python task scheduler, andKorhal, a StarCraft AI written in Clojure.


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Handling the Surge (Dan Applegate)

Good news! Someone with a massive social following has agreed to promote your site a week from now! Bad news? The thought of a sudden onslaught of traffic has you quaking in your boot scripts. Well use a recent example fromskillshare.comto introduce some simple approaches to prepare for anticipated spikes, even on a short timeline.


A North Carolina native, Dan Applegate graduated from Wake Forest University with degrees in Theatre and Computer Science. After completing an acting apprenticeship at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, he moved to New York in 2010 and began work as web developer. Before joining Skillshare, Dan worked at Rokkan Media, a small digital agency which counts Chipotle and JetBlue among its clients. His skills include the ability to solve a Rubik's cube in2:13.

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Feature Branches Considered Harmful (Brian Guthrie)

Feature branches and pull requests have become the gold standard for software collaboration in the Github age, but they havea hidden cost. Aiming for continuous delivery? Find out when to use them and when to let them go.


Brian Guthrie is a former lead at ThoughtWorks and is a noted speaker in the Ruby community. He is currently running a startup unrelated to those things.


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Deployment Considered Harmless (John Bennett)


When I arrived at NBC News Digital, deployments were painful affairs involving manually copying files late into the night. The time between code checkin and deployment was 2-4 weeks. When I left, we were deploying 6-8 times a day, within an hour of code checkin, during business hours. Our 4-person release team had been reassigned to far more interesting (and valuable) work. I'll talk about the technical, organizational, and cultural challenges we had to overcome to make this possible. Spoiler: technology is not the hard part.


John is VP of Engineering at Huge, a digital agency based in Brooklyn. He has 20 years of experience leading teams to design and build websites and applications for clients such as Variety, Nestl, Comcast, AARP, and Mass Mutual. As Principle Engineer for NBC News Digital, John created the infrastructure that runsnbcnews.comandtoday.com. He has helped develop and implement digital strategies for the Georges Malaika Foundation, the Robin Hood Foundation, and other non-profits; and is an active member of iMentor's Executive Leadership Council. John majored in Russian and Soviet Studies at Harvard College.


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Try It Before You Buy It (Jim Gedarovich)

Committing untested broken code to trunk is bad, so let's talk about how to make it fast and easy for developers to run over 9,000 tests on their changes before they even reach SCM.Well use Etsy'sapproach of giving developers a try command that can be used to test their changes on a Jenkins server as an example.


Jim Gedarovich is a test infrastructure and automation engineer at Etsy.
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