Speaker Profile: Sophie Rapoport
Sophie Rapoport is a software engineer at Eventbrite, where she builds and maintains the software infrastructure for Eventbrite’s financial systems. She studied math at MIT and dabbled in computer science while there. She spent a number of years teaching, then made her way back into programming. She spent the summer of 2015 at the Recurse Center in New York, an amazing programming community where she learned to love systems programming and became much less afraid of breaking her computer. She’s been working at Eventbrite for a bit over a year. She also had her first child in July, and thinks a lot about how the challenges of operating system scheduling compare to the challenges of parenthood.
Sophie will be presenting “WTFork?
How can I influence the order in which the operating system runs processes? What happens when I create processes in a loop? What happens when I spawn too many processes?
Operating systems can seem scary, but small-scale, low-risk programming experiments can teach us a lot about how they work!