Getting Started with SurrealDB is a 3-part online workshop series hosted by Women Coding Community in collaboration with SurrealDB. During these hands-on workshops, Caroline Morton - software engineer and senior research fellow at SurrealDB - will demonstrate SurrealDB's functionality and use cases, both as a traditional relational database, as well as highlighting the additional features and benefits of a multi-model database.

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SurrealDB and the WCC Platform: Practical Application in Real-World Projects

In this session, we will take the concepts learned in the previous talk and apply them to the Women Coding Community (WCC) platform. We’ll explore how SurrealDB’s features can be used to meet some of the platform’s needs, such as facilitating basic database functions as well as vector search for matching mentors and mentees. This hands-on example will show how SurrealDB can help solve real-world problems, giving participants a better understanding of how the database can be applied to projects beyond theory. It’s a chance to see SurrealDB in action, tackling practical challenges in a real-world setting. This will build on what we covered in session 2.

Agenda:

• 20:00 - 20:10 Introduction to Women Coding Community
• 20:10 - 21:10 Tech Talk
• 21:10 - 21:30 Q&A

Speaker: Caroline Morton \| LinkedIn

Dr. Caroline Morton is a software engineer, epidemiologist and co-author of Async Rust Programming book.

A Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Health Data Engineering at Queen Mary University London, Caroline writes software tools and data pipelines for the Genes and Health initiative, the world's largest community-embedded biobank. Simultaneously, Caroline is pursuing a Ph.D. in Synthetic Data Generation for health data research, sponsored by SurrealDB. She also leads Yellow Bird, a London start-up changing medical training with its virtual emergency room product, Clinical Metrics.

Speaker: Alexander Fridriksson \| LinkedIn

Alexander has been with SurrealDB from the start, being employee number 5. He is passionate about storytelling with data and sharing lessons learned working across Analytics, Data Science, Data Engineering, and Consulting.

Host: Adriana Zencke Zimmermann \| LinkedIn

Adriana is a Software Engineer passionate about designing and implementing scalable and efficient data processing systems. With over 15 years of experience in the tech industry. Adriana is a volunteer and also a Director at Women Coding Community. Her goal is to empower women and support them with personal growth and career development.

Co-Host: Nevena Verbič \| LinkedIn

Nevena is a Software Engineer experienced in working with diverse technologies such as C, C++, C#, Python, JavaScript, HTML, PHP and Java. Working for an ISO 9001 certificated company she had the opportunity to learn the best practices in software development and project organization. Nevena is improving Python, Java 21, and Spring Boot skills.

SurrealDB

👉 Get started with SurrealDB: https://sdb.li/getstarted 👉 Explore the new and improved features of SurrealDB 2.0

Key features of SurrealDB: ⭐ Reduces development time: SurrealDB simplifies your database and API stack by removing the need for most server-side components, allowing you to build secure, performant apps faster and cheaper. ⭐ Real-time collaborative API backend service: SurrealDB functions as both a database and an API backend service, enabling real-time collaboration. ⭐ Support for multiple querying languages: SurrealDB supports SQL querying from client devices, GraphQL, ACID transactions, WebSocket connections, structured and unstructured data, graph querying, full-text indexing, and geospatial querying. ⭐ Granular access control: SurrealDB provides row-level permissions-based access control, giving you the ability to manage data access with precision.