Compiled

A Tech Talk to Decode Tech Talk

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!