11-01, 09:00–10:30 (America/New_York), Music Box (Room 5411)
We’re moving at a speed faster than ever before, with approximately 328.77 million terabytes of data created each day. For those managing these databases, building a secure and sustainable process for building and releasing elements around the core database is more important than ever. In this tutorial; we’ll cover not only the importance and best practices for thinking about this from an architectural perspective but also how to get our hands dirty with building feature flags and a process for enabling continuous iteration and deployment with stealth, security, and smooth moves in mind.
Overview
Join Erin Mikail Staples, a Developer Experience Engineer, for a hands-on tutorial about how to build with iteration in mind so that you can ship code with confidence.
In this tutorial, we’ll evaluate a database’s architecture, deploy an API with feature flags, and take an API from beta to widespread release.
Learning Objectives
After this talk, attendees will be able to distinguish key traits of scalable database architecture.
After this talk, attendees will be able to implement feature flags within their development cycle and illustrate their importance within rapidly developing industries
After this talk, attendees will be able to understand the importance of data infrastructure as companies scale.
Requirements:
Theory
- Introductory understanding of the relationship between databases and APIs.
- Introductory understanding of how features are deployed
Technical
- Python3
- PostgreSQL
- FastAPI
- Your favorite IDE (I'll be using VS code and Warp terminal)
No previous knowledge expected
Erin Mikail Staples is a developer advocate, community human, tech educator, and comedian living in Brooklyn, NYC🗽 by way of Reno, NV 🤠.
She is currently a Developer Experience Engineer at LaunchDarkly. Erin hosts the DevRel(ish) podcast and performs and produces comedy in NYC.
Erin's various shenanigans have taken her to speaking at events like PyData Berlin and PyCon, garnered Jeff Staple's attention, appeared in The New York Times, broadcasted across the sound waves on the Practical AI podcast, or in USA Today's Storytellers Project, exist in the archive of the Museum of Alternate History and her mom's dogs's Instagram account.