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Personal schedule for Theo Schlossnagle

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8:30am Monday, 07/20/2009

Introduction to Google App Engine

Python, Web Applications
Location: Ballroom A3/A6

Joe Gregorio (Google)

Average rating:

(3.44, 16 ratings)

Overview of App Engine and its major components, including an overview of the APIs the SDK provides, the underlying technologies App Engine is built on. Tutorial is a hands on event where we will build multiple applications over three hours exploring many of features and APIs in App Engine. Read more.

1:30pm Monday, 07/20/2009

Scaling Your Web MySQL Application (mostly PHP/MySQL)

Databases, PHP, Web Applications
Location: Meeting Room J2

Duleepa Wijayawardhana (MySQL)

Average rating:

(3.50, 12 ratings)

Scaling is a perennial problem. One day you are happily serving 10,000 users and suddenly that pesky CNN picks you on you and you have to deal with a million users. It isn't all about putting the latest hardware, more disk or more RAM. Scaling is a subtle art of discovering pain points in the application and using various Open Source software and technologies to get you to where you want. Read more.

8:30am Tuesday, 07/21/2009

Gearman: Build Your Own Distributed Platform in 3 Hours

Databases, Web Applications
Location: Meeting Room J2

Eric Day (craigslist), Brian Aker (HP)

Average rating:

(3.82, 11 ratings)

This tutorial will show you how to get started with Gearman, the flexible job queuing system used to power websites such as LiveJournal and Digg. We'll cover common architectures, installation, APIs, and deployment. A few use cases will be described and built, including a Map/Reduce cluster and database-driven URL mining application. Read more.

1:30pm Tuesday, 07/21/2009

Scalable Internet Architectures

Administration, Web Applications
Location: Ballroom A3/A6

Theo Schlossnagle (OmniTI/Circonus)

Average rating:

(4.13, 23 ratings)

Internet traffic spikes aren't what they used to be. It is now evident that even the smallest sites can suffer the attention of the global audience. This presentation dives into techniques to avoid collapse under dire circumstances. Looking at some real traffic spikes, we'll pinpoint what part of the architecture is crumbling under the load; then, walk though stop-gaps and complete solutions. Read more.

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