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Our September meetup will be at AdRoll's headquarters in SF! We will have two talks along with delicious food & drinks.

Agenda:
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6:00 Doors open, food & networking!
6:45 Speakers
Talk 1: Building a Columnar Query Engine
Talk 2: A Distributed Application for Force Scanning

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Talk 1: Building a Columnar Query Engine

In order to help our analysts fight spam on Pinterest, we built a column-oriented data store & query engine that scans events on the platform. Think BigQuery with the ability to take action on both past & future results. We'll talk about how we use BEAM to store billions of events & analyze them in real time.

About the Speaker

Preston Guillory is a software engineer on the Protect team at Pinterest. He works on infrastructure for fighting spam, fraud, & other forms of abuse that make the world a less pleasant place to be.

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Talk 2: A Distributed Application for Force Scanning

Sparta's scanning software connects to force plates & reads information that is used to predict the risk of a sports injury & maximize performance. Their distributed application for creating force scans uses a main hosted Elixir/Phoenix web application together with hundreds of distributed laptops. Each of them is directly connected to a force plate, runs its own Elixir/Phoenix application, & "talks" to the main web application via Phoenix Channels. Channels are leveraged extensively to transmit live scan info, force data, & commands in real time. In this talk, Greg will describe the technical challenges of building & maintaining such a distributed application, along with the lessons learned.

Sparta has clients in the NFL, NBA, major league baseball, pro soccer, various university teams, the military, & also in medical applications.

About the Speaker

Greg Woodward oversees technology design & development as CTO at Sparta Science, & specializes dynamics & kinematics, together with agile development methodologies, with over 25 years of commercial software development experience. Before Sparta, Greg was CTO of NASDAQ Private Market (NPM) where he led their agile development team, prior to that, he was CTO at SharesPost, & before that Greg was VP of engineering at various technology startups in the Bay Area. Greg graduated 1st in his class at Texas A&M University with a BS in mechanical engineering, & received MS & PhD degrees in ME from Stanford University, where his research involved the use of tethered satellites with the space shuttle.

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About AdRoll, Our sponsor & Host.

In 2007 AdRoll, now AdRoll Group was founded with the objective of helping big & small businesses turn their customer data into high-performance marketing. From this inspiration, AdRoll grew to AdRoll Group, the Growth Platform Company. Organized around world-class data & automation, the company is home to AdRoll, the E-commerce Growth Platform, & RollWorks, the B2B Growth Platform. Each division is able to leverage shared platform capabilities, BidIQ artificial intelligence, & the IntentMap, a data co-op of more than 1.2 billion digital profiles, to solve online growth & connections for over 37,000 marketers worldwide.

AdRoll Group is a privately-held company headquartered in San Francisco, CA with offices in New York, Dublin, Sydney, London, Tokyo, Chicago, & Salt Lake City. Learn more at adrollgroup.com.

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CALL FOR SPEAKERS:

Do you want to present at our next meetup? We are looking for more speakers!. It can be even a lighting talk! Please signup here.

http://erlexsf.com/call-for-speakers/