Hello world, It's that time again! Our monthly JavaScript Meetup!

Hosted at Microsoft Times Square with awesome speakers~~

const Sun-Li_Beatteay = {

Bio:Sun-Li is a Brooklyn based software engineer who enjoys working on distributed systems & decentralized applications (dApps). He also appreciates fine wines, craft beers, & black cats. When not programming or writing about programming, he likes to bike around the city & explore new neighborhoods.,

Talk_Description: Conclave is a decentralized, real-time, collaborative text editor for the browser. This talk will focus on the challenges that the Conclave team faced & their solutions. These topics include how to create a decentralized application using modern browser technology, maintaining consistency in a distributed architecture, & how to cheaply scale a real-time application to handle dozens of concurrent users. For anyone interested in dApps, distributed systems or fun open source projects, you won't want to miss this presentation.

};

const Walid_Wahed = {

Bio:Hi there, my name is Walid & I'm a software engineer in NYC. I'm inspired by new ideas & love unlocking new knowledge: understanding how things work & deconstructing complexity is a source of joy for me. Most recently had a lot of fun building Prefixy, a highly scalable hosted prefix search service for building autocomplete suggestions.,

Talk_Description: This talk is a fun case study on the process of building a prefix search service from scratch to power Google-style autocomplete. We'll do a whirlwind tour that covers how to think about distilling requirements, how to evaluate trade-offs between different data structures & algorithms to address those requirements, persistency strategy for building a backend that can dynamically rank & search a large dataset, how to implement basic multi-tenancy, & more.

};

const Rachel_White = {

Bio:Rachel is an Engineer at Microsoft, but is also a self-taught programmer & occasional artist. She is currently working on multiple video game projects, a VR cat cafe, & thinking about what IoT devices she can build for her two black cats. Her other interests include glitch art, 80s horror, & indie games. Her aesthetic is fog machines, laser lights, & broken VHS tapes.,

Talk_Description:
Build a tiny art gallery!

Ever wanted your own personal art collection but don't want to spend a ton of cash? Well, you're in luck! Learn how to build your own tiny pixel art gallery with a led matrix powered by a raspberry pi running Node. Pair the device with a separate node web app for choosing the art, real-time. :)
};