Report from the meeting of Perl-programmers Moscow.pm February 4

In early February, a regular Moscow-pm meeting was held at the Mail.Ru Group office, organized by the Perl-programmers community. Speeches made at the meeting were devoted to the theory and practical problems arising during the development. Under the cat you will find videos and presentations of reports.

Dmitry Simonov (independent programmer), "Learning to draw"

A short story about how to make a comfortable generation of beautiful images without the participation of programmers. Code samples, statistics, benchmarks were shown, some interesting facts were told. Dmitry also spoke about the use of Perl, like glue, when building complex automated solutions using the example of a photoshop cluster.
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Ilya Chesnokov (programmer in the UK2 Group), "Competitive Programming Technologies"

Do you use competitive programming technologies - threads (threads), forks, asynchronous I / O? Why is the use of threads in Perl not recommended? How does asynchronous I / O work? What are coroutines and why are they needed? Ilya told about his attempts to research and compare various technologies of competitive (parallel and asynchronous) programming.

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Pavel Shcherbinin (Head of News and Hi-Tech Development Groups at Mail.Ru Group), “Index Condition Pushdown”

MySQL 5.6 has a special search strategy based on the ICP index. In his report, Pavel examined examples and features of its use with the help of theoretical and practical calculations, with living examples.

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If you want to speak at the next meeting - write Pavel Dzirtik to Shcherbinin!