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Time	Presenter	Topic
5:30 - 6:00		PIZZA
6:00 - 7:00	Joshua Plosky	AppDynamics - Call of Duty: DevOps (Slides)
7:00 - 8:00	Adrian Cole	Livin' on the Edge: Netflix Edge Architecture

 

AppDynamics - Call of Duty: DevOps

It's no longer enough to wage war in pre-production. That's where developers have fought their conflicts time and time again--but now they need to cross battle lines and head into Production. It's a new kind of battle, one torn apart with operational complexity, agile missions and server warfare. With access to virtual platforms, monitoring weaponry, and automation tools, developers must now fight to ensure the performance and availability of mission-critical business applications. In this session we'll look at: 

• The production battleground of modern mission-critical apps
• An overview of special weapons and agile tactics (SWAT) for DevOps
• Real-life application fatalities and incidents
• Lessons learned from Customers winning the Dev Ops war

Will you heed the call?

Joshua Plosky is a Senior Sales Engineer at AppDynamics.  Previously, he worked for Mercury Interactive, HP and CA.  Over the last 14 years he has helped customers like Wells Fargo, Visa, Cisco, C.Schwab and a host of .coms with their performance testing and application monitoring.

 

Livin' on the Edge: Netflix Edge Architecture

Life on the edge is innovating a system that is ultimately responsible for 1/3 of all internet bandwidth usage in the US. Ever wonder how Netflix does it? This talk will overview a combination of services and open source projects that comprise the edge network, including Neflix Denominator.  Discussions will include how we deal with DNS, distributed load balancing as well discovery of mid-tier services. You'll understand which service components are involved with edge traffic management.  When you leave, you'll have enough context to create your own life on the Edge with NetflixOSS!

Adrian Cole is an active member of cloud interoperability, REST, and DevOps circles.  He is the founder of two popular open source projects: jclouds and denominator, both of which are java libraries that help create portable cloud deployments.  His current title is "cloud guy" at Netflix, focused on programmatic edge infrastructure.

 

Plus the following breakout:

Small Group/Mentoring/Breakout	Presenter
Hadoop	UHUG

 

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Time	Presenter	Topic
5:30 - 6:00		PIZZA
6:00 - 7:00	John Esser	Testing in a Velocity Culture (Slides)
7:00 - 8:00	David Wellman	What is Big Data? (Slides)

 

Testing in a Velocity Culture

Delivering business value to customers rapidly is on the forefront more than ever before. Technical practices such as continuous delivery and business approaches such as the lean startup movement continue to push this to the extreme. Testing in these “velocity” cultures presents unique challenges and requires implementing some non-conventional approaches to traditional testing methods and practices. How does testing function in this type of environment? What is required to be successful? John Esser, Director of Engineering Productivity at Ancestry.com, will share his insights and experiences from Ancestry’s move to continuous delivery and how testing and his test team had to evolve in their velocity culture.

John Esser is the Director of Engineering Productivity and Agile Development at Ancestry.com. His team’s mission is to accelerate engineering’s ability to deliver value to the customer. He is the architect of Ancestry’s transformation to Agile development and continuous delivery. John has more than 25 years software development experience working for such companies as IBM, Corel, Callware Technologies, and Control4. His spare time is gobbled up by his beautiful wife, four teenage sons, reading lots of books, and fly-fishing for trout on the Provo River.

 

What is Big Data? An Introduction to Hadoop

Isn’t Big Data just big hype? What’s the point and why should I care?

The market is abuzz with how many companies are using Big Data and Hadoop to reach new markets, provide exciting new features and mine information out that has been inaccessible. This is a chance to look at the facts behind Big Data, how Hadoop fits into the ecosystem and where the market is heading.

David Wellman is the Enterprise Architect at Myriad Genetics and co-founder of the Utah Hadoop User Group

 

Plus the following breakout:

Small Group/Mentoring/Breakout	Presenter
Resume Workshop	Mathew Parrish from Parallel HR

 

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Time	Presenter	Topic
5:30 - 6:00		PIZZA
6:00 - 7:00	Adinath Raveendra Raj	Induction Framework
7:00 - 8:00	James Ward	Play Framework

 

Introduction to the Induction MVC framework

The presentation would provide a brief introduction to Induction, followed by illustrative examples if time permits. Induction is a powerful, open-source, high performance, Java MVC web application framework. Induction supports dynamic application reloading, type-based dependency injection and dependency analysis between models, views and controllers. The goal of Induction is to simplify the task of building complex, high performance, maintainable web applications using Java technology.

Adinath (Adi) Raveendra Raj has been in professional software engineering since 1992. During this time he has authored three MVC frameworks and has designed and built systems in several domains including medical informatics, equity brokering, fixed income securities, margin trading and web-to-print. The last 14 years of his career have focused on building web-based applications with Java technology. Adinath graduated summa cum laude from Arizona State University with a degree in Computer Science/Mathematics. He earned his graduate membership of the British Computer Society for his dissertation on distributed systems.

 

Client/Server Apps with Play Framework, HTML5 and Java

The web application landscape is rapidly shifting back to a Client/Server architecture. This time around, the Client is JavaScript, HTML, and CSS in the browser. The tools and deployment techniques for these types of applications are abundant and fragmented.

This session will teach you how to pull together jQuery, LESS, Twitter, Bootstrap, and some CoffeeScript to build the Client. The Server could be anything that talks HTTP, but this session will use the Play Framework.

About James Ward

 

Plus the following breakouts:

Small Group/Mentoring/Breakout	Presenter
Java Certification	Don Bogardus
Resume Workshop	Mathew Parrish from Parallel HR

 

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Time	Presenter	Topic
5:30 - 6:00		PIZZA
6:00 - 7:00	Krishna Raman	OpenShift
7:00 - 8:00	Peter Walker	Gradleware

 

Deploying the JBoss portfolio on OpenShift

In this session, we will explore JBoss modules such as SwitchYard, Drools, jBPM and Infinispan etc. which help you build a scalable web applications. We will also see how easy it is to develop and deploy these applications to the cloud using OpenShift. What's OpenShift? It's Red Hat's open source, auto-scaling platform as a service. It helps you focus on code instead of managing servers and configuring software.

Krishna Raman is a Cloud platform architect on the Red Hat's OpenShift team. He uses his experience from wide variety of projects ranging from distributed real-time systems to cloud and mobile application development to contribute and improve open-source projects. He is passionate about cloud and mobile computing technologies and is usually tinkering with Ruby, Java and Android projects in his spare time.

 

Rocking the Gradle!

This presentation introduces the audience to the power of Gradle through many real-world examples that are demonstrated. By the end of the presentation, you'll understand how Gradle helps to elegantly solve the challenges that we face in our daily builds. We'll go through such powerful concepts as: advantages of declarative over imperative build systems, convention over configuration without rigidity, the Gradle plugins, deep multi–project support, performance optimizations through partial builds and incrementalness, harvesting existing functionality through Ant and Maven integration, as well as migration strategies for migrating from these build tools. We will demonstrate many of the innovative goodies that come with Gradle out–of–the–box, like the Gradle Daemon, the Gradle Wrapper, easy administration of your build environment, building Android apps and libraries, Eclipse integration, and other new plugins.

Peter is donating 2 copies of the Gradle Effective Implementation Guide to be raffled after the meeting.

Peter Walker is the COO of Gradleware, he has over 20 years experience as a software developer and enterprise architect in the engineering and financial technology sectors. From 1998 to 2012, he worked at Goldman Sachs, most recently as the CTO of the GS Application Practices Group. In this role, he delivered an integrated development platform for firm–wide usage that satisfied audit and regulatory controls for GS software development. A strong advocate of project automation and agile, lean, and TDD techniques, Peter has committed code to open source projects, such as Fitnesse.

 

Plus the following breakouts:

Small Group/Mentoring/Breakout	Presenter
Java Certification	Don Bogardus
Resume Workshop	Mathew Parrish from Parallel HR

 

Last Updated on Tuesday, 08 January 2013 18:27 Written by Site Admin Thursday, 12 July 2012 20:55

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