Brian Meeker
Senior Engineer at GetThru
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Brian Meeker is a full stack engineer who occasionally leaves his basement in Indiana. Currently, he works as a Senior Engineer at GetThru. He works mostly in Elixir these days, but has a past littered with a wide variety of technologies and platforms. Outside of work, Brian is a devoted father, avid nerd, and lover of metal.
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Messaging With Limits: Concurrent, Multi-Stage Data Processing in the Real World
Our team at GetThru found ourselves with a scaling problem. Working with our existing infrastructure for sending text messages was becoming increasingly complex. Years of bewildering external requirements had led us to the point where the existing system was both incorrect and difficult to reason about.
In this session, we'll go over a case study of our new concurrent, multi-stage data processing pipeline. Starting from the fundamentals, we'll see how our team efficiently handled our existing external requirements and built in flexibility for the future. Finally, we'll look at how we did all of this in our existing monolith, avoiding the complexity of microservices.
It's a Live(View): Discover the Elixir of Life With a Virtual Pet
Are you tired of writing JavaScript? Are you only using Node to avoid context shifting between languages? Good news! In recent years there has been an explosion in developer options for creating rich, real-time browser-based apps with little to no JavaScript!
This session will give a brief overview of Elixir and then create a virtual pet app using Phoenix LiveView. You'll leave the session knowing the pros and cons of this model vs. traditional JavaScript frameworks and a virtual pet who will provide you with unconditional love until you forget to feed it for too long.
From Punch Cards to Git: A Brief History of Version Control
Believe it or not, there was a time before Git! And even longer ago there was a time before version control itself! Come learn all about the version control systems of yesteryear, such as SCSS and RCS. Stick around to learn the horrors of file locking and versioning. Gaze into the madness that is Darcs patch theory. Escape with a broad grasp on the history of version control, different paradigms, and how we all ended up using Git today. Then we'll attempt to gaze deep into our crystal ball to envision possible version control futures.
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