PLUG General Meeting 2018

The Palmerston North Linux Users Group held their General Meeting last night (the 13th of June 2018). The club’s constitution was confirmed with one minor amendment, and a new committee was elected:

  • John Flower: President
  • Nick Skarott: Vice President
  • Joseph Calkin: Treasurer
  • Tom Ryder: Secretary
  • Don Esslemont: Committee Member

Thank you to everyone who attended the meeting. The minutes are available for download here: PLUG GM 2018-06-13 Minutes.

Palmerston North Software Development Meetup

PLUG members with a software engineering bent may well be interested in this month’s Palmerston North Software Development Meetup on Thursday June 28th 2018 at 5:30pm at 114 The Square, Palmerston North.

From the announcement link above:

This month we are lucky enough to have Max Dietrich speaking to us about his experiences in building a Fly Buys micro-service platform.

Max was a developer on the Fly Buys redevelopment, moving the platform to a cloud-based micro-service architecture. The platform is based on Alchemy and Advanced Message Queuing Protocol frameworks. Alchemy is a framework for creating highly available systems that are built from micro-services. Alchemy includes service discovery, easy deployment, smart load balancing and is a polyglot, so you can use the best languages to solve all your problems.