2020 January 16 Meeting: Interacting with databases as API's

2020 January 16 Meeting 6pm-8pm

Location:

PSU Business Accelerator
2828 SW Corbett Ave · Portland, OR
Parking is open after 5pm.

Speaker: Alex Theodore

As a CTO I saw everything that went into and came out of the web
development process, from the "client needs" to the source-controlled
code. But being skilled in database development showed me time and time
again that databases (and their architecture) were often sidelined
treated as after-thoughts and often times served as little more than
flexible storage spaces. Yet, their contents were the very essence of
value for the process/client/company being served. This strange
inversion of priorities led me to develop a way of looking at databases
as "outside" the application and ultimately to interacting with them as
API's. In my talk I'll be presenting this concept and showing with
simple rules and examples how it can be done.

Bio:

I was the product and technology founder of Fracture.me and CTO up until
2018 where I developed the manufacturing processes and ERP software that
powered our production process. That got me deeply involved in database
work, especially with architecture and process design and optimization.
Now I work part time as a database consultant and part time building
modern, minimalistic furniture for my new (small) company
MillFinish.com.