Join us for drinks, food and two great short talks on engineering projects
6 PM - Food & Drinks
7 PM - Talks
Talks:
Distributed Web Crawling with Python and AWS, or, What I Learned From Compaq (Steve Howard, Thumbtack)
In this talk I'll share some of our experiences developing a large-scale web crawler using Python and AWS. I'll give an overview of the Mercator web crawler, share...
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Join us for drinks, food and two great short talks on engineering projects
6 PM - Food & Drinks
7 PM - Talks
Talks:
Distributed Web Crawling with Python and AWS, or, What I Learned From Compaq (Steve Howard, Thumbtack)
In this talk I'll share some of our experiences developing a large-scale web crawler using Python and AWS. I'll give an overview of the Mercator web crawler, share some tips and hard-earned wisdom on implementing Mercator with Python and AWS, and end with some real-world results from our crawls.
Introducing Zinc - Mobile Asset Distribution Made Easy (Andy Mroczkowski, MindSnacks)
Zinc is a new system for distributing groups of files. It draws inspiration from Git, but is designed with mobile clients in mind. In this talk, I'll go over the basic concepts and features of Zinc as well as technical implementation details. I will also demonstrate the command-line admin tools and the iOS client.