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About ME

Name: Rohit Kalkur
Been at Social Tables for 1 year!
Favorite Feature: Table previews for templates in Venue Mapper



About You



Name
How long have you been here?
Favorite Social Tables feature and/or product so far?

Goal




  •  Learn what technologies power our products
  • Learn how the engineering team works
  • Hopefully learn something new (EDIASD)!



Products





We've got a bunch now!

Venue Mapper


Table Buffet and Designer

Pocket Planner (iOS)

ST To Go


Check-In (iOS)

Onsite 2.0


App vs Page


Describe BBC


Describe GMAIL.com


architecture



Lets talk web-app architecture!

Client Side


  • The actual web app people interact with
  • Ex: Venue Mapper


Server SIDE

  • The part that talks to the database to retrieve data
  • The web app interacts with server-side                             

    • Client-Side Technologies

    • HTML
    • CSS
    • JavaScript

    HTML


    The pieces of our web app


    This is a button

    CSS


    How do those pieces look?


    This is a red button

    Javascript


    What do those pieces do?


    This button triggers a pop-up when I click it

    Server-side

    • NodeJS
    • MySQL

    NODE-JS

    • Server-side JavaScript
    • Why is that cool? Same language on client and server code!

    MYSQL

    • Our database technology
    • Used to store data!
    • Contains info about every user/event/object in Social Tables!

    How DO we all work on app at same time?


    • Github: Allows us to manage concurrent changes to codebase
    I am fixing bugs on the master branch


    Ricky needs to work on a new feature, so he creates a new branch
    I work on master while Ricky works on his new feature
    Ricky is done with new feature, and submits a request to merge his changes back into master

    Ricky's request can be reviewed for functionality/code quality before it its merged into master





    Engineers "deploy"  master branch to servers so that users can see/use Ricky's new feature in addition to the  bug fixes I made!

    HOW CAN I GET INVOLVED?


    • If you have a cool idea, talk to a member of the Product team


                                                              

    WRAP UP

    • The various products here at Social Tables
    • Client vs Server
    • How we manage changes to the codebase



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