ETE 2015

Philly ETE 2015 #52 – Tom DeVane, Rick Nucci, Mike Rappaport, Beth Bunting Arnholt – Creating a Workplace to Retain Your Tech Talent

When your top talent gets a call from your competitor down the street offering a 10% bump in salary, will they stay or jump? Is money everything? What can else can you offer them so that they will stay with you? There are no absolutes, but there are companies with low turn-over and the things they pay attention to tend to be quite different from what the companies that have retention issues pay attention to.

Philly ETE 2015 #50 – Jamie Allen, Erik Osheim, Brendan McAdams, Michael Pilquist, Brian Clapper – Typesafe Scala, Typelevel Scala: What’s Going On Anyway?

From the abstract: Last year, Miles Sabin wrote that “there is … a significant constituency at the core of the Scala community whose needs are not being fully met [by Typesafe’s focus on stability and Java 8 compatibility].” That statement summarizes the mission behind Typelevel.org, a project that currently consists of a fork of the … Read More

Philly ETE 2015 #47 – Seth Vargo – Taming the Modern Data Center

This talk will discuss the problems faced in the modern data center, and how a set of innovative open source tooling can be used to tame the rising complexity curve. Join me on an adventure with Vagrant, Consul, and Terraform as we take your data center from chaos to control.