May Meeting - Saving Energy with Ruby and Friends by Michael May

Fellow Rubyists,

Our next meeting will be on the new and improved second Wednesday of the month: May 9, from 7:30-9:30 at Cospace. Our talk will be from Michael May of Power Smart Labs.

Happily, CabForward will be sponsoring our April meeting. They are a Ruby on Rails design, development and training company located in beautiful Austin, Texas.

After the presentation we’ll be pairing off to work through a brand new code kata. You’ll definitely want to remember your laptop.

Here’s Michael's talk synopsis:

Data centers use lots of energy. Unfortunately, large amounts of this are wasted by servers not doing any useful work. Power Smart Labs is an early stage startup that makes software to reduce data center energy usage. In this talk I will be showing off our technology stack.

Along the way we will encounter things such as: Sinatra vs. Rails, using Active Record with Sinatra, executing time-based jobs with Ruby, and optimizing optimization algorithms.

Customarily, after our meeting, we’ll head over to Sherlock’s Baker Street Pub for refreshments and conversation.

We’ll see y’all there!