This month's topic: Incremental Rollout of New Features

In November 2011, Gilt Groupe announced the availability of International Shipping on gilt.com. This feature was jointly developed by Gilt's New York and Portland engineering teams. Key pieces of this project were written in Java and Scala. Join us for a discussion about the production rollout strategy for this feature.

speaker: Ian Dees + Joshua Keroes

Ian...

➜ will cover what it's like for n00bs learning how to create a new Perl module, including:

• Where rookies look for "Getting Started" information
• Which tools we can readily find for the job
• What kinds of questions we have about namespaces

What Ian would like to do to help:

• Listen to your answers
• Format them into some kind of guide (or supplement an existing one)
• Hand it to a Perl expert to post in the right place
• Commit to checking in a couple of times a year to keep the information current

You will be vastly enlightened, or horrified.

Joshua...

➜ will continue down the Dist::Zilla path of Automated Enlightenment and speak on Pod::Weaver.

In July, Duke Leto gave Portland an introduction to Dist::Zilla, demonstrating how it can help write, package, test, and release your modules; automating the boring stuff like figuring out prerequisites, automatically inserting and updating $VERSION's, getting rid of all those meta files and generating them automatically; all good ways to focus on the important stuff: the code.

This month, Joshua will show how Pod::Weaver can help automate the boring parts of writing documentation so you can avoid getting bogged down by boilerplate and focus on the important stuff there: the docs.

As always, the meeting will be followed by social hour at the Lucky Lab.

Application and Module Deployment Panel For this panel discussion, we will be focusing on modules, tools, and best practices used to deploy Perl applications and modules.

Panel members:

• Anthony: Deployment with Carton, cpanminus, and some Fabric + local::lib bootstrap glue
• Eric: Module::Build, PAR, App::FatPacker

Please share your questions, puzzles, anecdotes, and cake.

As always, the meeting will be followed by social hour at the Lucky Lab.

A lunch meeting for Software Configuration Management engineers, build engineers, source control administrators, install package developers, DevOps personnel, and any related to meet and greet.

An opportunity to share perceptions of industry realities and changes and what those might mean for the practical engineer on the line.

A lunch meeting for Software Configuration Management engineers, build engineers, source control administrators, install package developers (msi, rpm, other), DevOps personnel, and any related to meet and greet.

An opportunity to share perceptions of industry realities and changes and what those might mean for the practical engineer on the line.

Who has read Jez Humble's "Continuous Delivery"?

This month we are all in for a double dose of awesome! Our special guest will be Arun Gupta (founding member of the Java EE team at Sun Microsystems and director of developer advocacy at Red Hat in San Francisco). He will give not one, but 2 talks:

Devoxx4Kids:

So your kid is interested in programming, robotics, engineering?

Devoxx4Kids is a worldwide initiative that introduces programming, robotics, and engineering to kids at an early age. This is achieved by organizing events where children can develop computer games, program robots and also have an introduction to electronics. This effort won Duke’s Choice Awards at JavaOne 2013. This session will share how Devoxx4Kids is engaging kids at an early age and teaching them computing concepts using Scratch, Greenfoot, Minecraft, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, NAO, Tynker. The session will show a path that can be followed by parents to keep their kids engaged and build, instead of just play games. The attendees will learn best practices to organize similar workshops in their local setting. Tips on opening a local US chapter and how to build attendee base will be shared.

Continuous Integration using Java EE 7

Techniques such as automated testing, continuous integration and continuous deployment allow software to be developed to a high standard and easily packaged and deployed to test environments, resulting in the ability to rapidly, reliably and repeatedly push out enhancements and bug fixes to customers at low risk and with minimal manual overhead. What container-agnostic tools are available for testing, continuous integration and deployment of a Java EE 7 application?

This talk will provide a quick overview of Arquillian and how it helps in testing across multiple containers. Separate approaches for greenfield and brownfield applications will be shown. Configuring Jenkins for Continuous Integration will be shown. Setting up multiple WildFly containers on OpenShift for testing and production will be shown in detail. At the end of this session, attendees would have converted their development environment to leverage the power of Jenkins, Arquillian, and OpenShift to setup an automated Continuous Delivery pipeline.

Doors will open at 5:30, and the presentation will begin right at 6p. The food and drinks are provided by Bellagios and New Relic.

Please RSVP via Eventbrite HERE

*Arun Gupta is Director of Developer Advocacy at Red Hat and focuses on JBoss Middleware. As a founding member of the Java EE team at Sun Microsystems, he spread the love for technology all around the world. At Oracle, he led a cross-functional team to drive the global launch of the Java EE 7 platform through strategy, planning, and execution of content, marketing campaigns, and program. After authoring ~1400 blogs at blogs.oracle.com/arungupta on different Java technologies, he continues to promote Red Hat technologies and products at blog.arungupta.me.

Arun has extensive speaking experience in ~40 countries on myriad topics and is a JavaOne Rockstar. He also founded the Devoxx4Kids chapter in the USA and continues to promoting technology education amongst kids. An author of a best-selling book, an avid runner, a globe trotter, a Java Champion, JUG leader, he is easily accessible at @arungupta.*

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Safe Lambda Deployments

RSVP: https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Serverless-Architecture-Meetup/events/258602787/

AWS Lambda and AWS CodeDeploy enable developers to safely deploy new application code to production. In this talk, we will discuss how Saks Fifth Avenue adopted 'safe deployment' practices for AWS Lambda functions. We'll examine traffic shifting, traffic hooks, YAML configuration, and the CodeDeploy API.

About the speaker:

Sean Sullivan is a Principal Software Engineer at the Hudson's Bay Company. Sean has worked on a variety of backoffice engineering projects, including payment processing and email generation. He is a contributor to open source projects and has contributed to Amazon's AWS SDK for Java version 2.0. He lives in Portland Oregon.

Schedule:
Doors Open at 6 p.m.
Programming to begin at 6:30 p.m. with Q&A after.

Drinks and Light Snacks will be served.