<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi LRUG,<br class=""><br class="">Rails Core Team Member and Unboxed CTO, Andrew White, is hosting our next meetup titled: ‘Andrew White’s Technical Breakfast Club: Scaling up Rails in a national referendum’ and we have some places left.<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">Date:</b> Wednesday 31st August<br class=""><b class="">Time:</b> 09:30 – 10:30 (Breakfast from 09:00)<br class=""><b class="">Location:</b> Unboxed, 17 Blossom Street, London, E1 6PL<br class=""><br class="">Andrew will share how a Rails application originally designed to process up to 12,000 signatures per hour coped with 150,000 – disproving the common misconception that “Rails can’t scale”. He will also be covering:<br class=""><ul class=""><li class="">The background to the Petitions website and its design</li><li class="">Lessons learnt from previous popular petitions</li><li class="">Scaling your app when it receives unexpected demand</li><li class="">Lessons learnt from the 24th June and the following few days</li><li class="">Coping with fraud and bad actors</li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div>There will also be a Q&A session afterwards to get any questions out there. <br class=""><br class="">And the link to register: <a href="https://unboxed.co/news/meetup-andrew-white-s-technical-breakfast-club-scaling-up-rails-in-a-national-referendum/" class="">https://unboxed.co/news/meetup-andrew-white-s-technical-breakfast-club-scaling-up-rails-in-a-national-referendum/</a><br class=""><br class="">(Unfortunately we won’t be able to record or live stream the session, but we will be doing a write up of it afterwards).<br class=""><br class="">We hope you can make it.<br class=""><br class="">Thanks,<br class="">Graeme<br class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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