Events Halihax March Virtual Meetup
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.
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.
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.
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We’ll do a quick introduction and kick off the evening.
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
Grab a refill and a snack then come back to hear from our second speaker.
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
How is everyone doing? What are your thoughts on the virtual meet-up?