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Halihax March Virtual Meetup
March 24, 2020 @ 7:30 pm - 11:00 pm ADT
Description
⚠️ VENUE CHANGE
We have decided to move March’s meetup to be virtual-only. We will send connection details in Slack the evening of the event. Unfortunately we can’t mail you a beer, but we will continue the festivities with breakout rooms, opportunity to win a prize, and three great talks.
OUR SPEAKERS
Gabrielle White
Senior Service Design @ Nova Scotia Digital Service
Gab White is a multi-hyphenate person (designer-developer-hobbyist quilter) who absolutely dies for the creative pursuit of solving big problems. A former self-employed designer/dev, Gab can now be found in the public service at the Nova Scotia Digital Service where she helps try to make it easier for Nova Scotians to do stuff with the government online.
Alanna MacNevin
Development Team Lead @ Talkatoo
Alanna started her career as a software developer 7 years ago when she volunteered with an NGO in Lima, Peru as a Drupal Developer. Since coming back home to the Maritimes she has worked with several startups in the Halifax area and is currently the Software Development Manager and Software Developer (React, Node, && Electron) with Talkatoo. She is endlessly curious and excited for new challenges.
SPONSORS
PARTNERS
THE RUNDOWN
6:30pm – Virtual gathering
Sign in and chat with others in the Halifax technology community!
7:00pm – Introductions & Welcome
We’ll do a quick introduction and kick off the evening.
7:10pm – Building and scaling in government with the Nova Scotia Digital Service with Gabrielle White
In 2017, I quit the self-employed designer and developer life and joined the NS Government as part of the Nova Scotia Digital Service. Since joining the team I’ve learned that the technical part of building modern, scalable digital services is the easy part. The people and the process are the hard parts. This talk explains how my team redesigned a paper-based process to become a modern digital service by introducing agile ways of working, starting with user needs, and collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team.
Topics: Government, Scalable Teams
7:50pm – A quick break between speakers (10min)
Grab a refill and a snack then come back to hear from our second speaker.
8:00pm – Everything you wanted to know about gRPC by someone who knows nothing about it with Alanna MacNevin
An introduction to gRPC Remote Procedure Call (gRPC), Google’s lightweight open-source RPC framework. This presentation will go over what gRPC is, concepts around gRPC, what problem it seeks to solve, the benefits of gRPC over other services to enable communication between distributed services and systems, when to use gRPC (and when not to), and demonstrate a working[tm] example to demonstrate all that we’ve learned.
Topics: RPC, Messaging, Architecture
8:40pm – Check-in with the community
How is everyone doing? What are your thoughts on the virtual meet-up?
Organizer
Venue
- Nova Scotia Canada + Google Map
