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1:30pm Monday, 07/20/2009

XMPP 101: Building Real-Time Applications with Jabber Technologies

Emerging Topics, Programming, Web Applications
Location: Ballroom A2

Peter Saint-Andre (Cisco), Jack Moffitt (Collecta)

Average rating:

(3.50, 12 ratings)

Jabber/XMPP technologies are the gold standard for real-time messaging, presence, and collaboration over the Internet. This interactive tutorial provides a fast-paced introduction to XMPP, including many practical guidelines and "gotchas" that will help you get off to a fast start with XMPP-based software projects. Read more.

1:30pm Monday, 07/20/2009

Running the Show: Configuration Management with Chef

Administration, Cloud Computing, Ruby
Location: Ballroom A8

Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. )

Average rating:

(3.53, 19 ratings)

Few applications are architecturally simple. As soon as you grow, you find yourself using multiple subsystems and machines to scale, creating new headaches in configuration management. Help is at hand! This tutorial introduces Chef, a modern Ruby-based open source approach to systems integration. Chef lets you manage your servers by writing code, not running commands. Read more.

8:30am Tuesday, 07/21/2009

Practical Erlang Programming Tutorial

Emerging Topics, Linux, Programming
Location: Meeting Room J1/J4

Francesco Cesarini (Erlang Solutions Ltd)

Average rating:

(4.67, 9 ratings)

Practical Erlang Programming covers the basic, sequential and concurrent aspects of the Erlang programming language. You will learn the basics of how to read, write and structure Erlang programs. The target audience are software developers and engineers with an interest in server side applications and massively concurrent systems. The perquisites are basic programming knowledge. 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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