grouped in pairs comprising of a senior and junior • The kata that people had to solve was only revealed on the day of meetup ◦ People were asked to solve the Roman Numerals Kata • Format of the meetup ◦ Two 45 min sessions for problem solving ◦ Two 30 min Breaks, one in between the sessions and towards the end • Discussion format during the breaks similar to how it is at a code retreat ◦ How do you think it’s going so far? ◦ What do you think could have helped you doing it better? ◦ What are you going to do different in your approach for the second half of the session?
solving) from above answer ◦ Excited to solve the exercise ◦ Practicing TDD religiously ▪ Passing one test a time ◦ Identifying Patterns along the way of solving the problem Their Answer
• I currently work for Sephora Digital SEA - a company selling beauty products • Had an upcoming big sale for Sephora Australia • Some performance bottlenecks needed to be addressed before the sale ◦ Shopping Cart Page - one of the bottlenecks • Few days(time constraint) before the sale to address these performance issues • Problem was identified at a high level through some load tests • My challenges ◦ Narrow down to where exactly were redis hget calls were being misused ◦ Only a few months of experience into the codebase ◦ My domain knowledge was limited around samples tiers ◦ Using a part of redis that I hadn’t ever used before
and for the inspiration(via the exercism newsletter) to share one’s story via a talk ◦ Everybody who has contributed to Exercism ◦ Everyone who were directly or indirectly involved with the April 2016 BRUG meetup on exercism • Related reading ◦ For a detailed writeup of how the exercism related ruby meetup was organized, one can read this post I wrote on medium
boddhisattva
geoffreycrofte
stephaniewalter
rmw
bryan
morganepeng
panda_program
irinanazarova
brettharned
sugarenia
quramy
addyosmani
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