October 2024 Meeting
The October 2024 meeting of LRUG will be on Monday the 14th of October, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm (meeting starts at 6:30pm).
This month we're hosted by the lovely folk at Zappi in their offices, on Camden High St. Full venue and registration details are given below.
Agenda
Fighting Enshittification with ActivityPub
James Smith says:
ActivityPub is the protocol that powers the Fediverse, a web of social sites like Mastodon, PixelFed, and a host of other free and open source tools. I’ll explain what ActivityPub is, how it works, and discuss the Federails Rails engine which allows you to add federation into your existing Rails web apps. By breaking open the silos of existing social media like this, we can fight the enshittification of the web and reclaim a bit of power from the massive companies that own our online lives.
Plan to scale or plan to fail: an evidence-based approach for improving systems performance
Jade Dickinson is giving us a preview of her RubyConf 2024 talk:
In this talk, I will present a methodology for replicating most standard Rails systems, for the purpose of load testing.
You can use this to find out how your system performs with more traffic than you currently encounter. This will be useful if you are on a Rails team that is starting to see scaling challenges.
At Theta Lake we operate at scale and are applying this methodology to proactively find ways to bring down our server costs. You don’t want to leave it until either your server costs soar out of control, or your entire system is about to fail. By seeing into the future just a little bit, you can find bottlenecks in your system and so find where you can improve its scalability.
Afterwards
When the talks come to an end we'll decamp to a local pub for some food, some drinks and some chat with your fellow attendees.
Of course, even though this is the socialising part and seems more informal, please remember that still we consider it to be a part of the meeting and covered by our code of conduct.
Venue & Registration
Prior to attending you should familiarise yourself with our README paying close attention to the code of conduct which applies to all attendees.
Secure your place
Hopefully you all remember that physical meetings involve finite space and so to be guaranteed entry you need to register via ticket tailor.
We are trialling a new ticketing platform, Ticket Tailor. Do let us know how you find the user flow on it.
Venue
The address of the venue:
Zappi
Theatre House
97 - 99 Camden High St
London
NW1 7JN
See on a map
The venue has a hard limit of 100 people. If you register and realise you can't come, please use eventbrite to give up your place so we can someone else come in your place. We might be able to let in people on the night who haven't registered, but we can't guarantee it.
Posted by Frederick Cheung on Sep 09, 2024