Personal schedule for Stéphane Jolicoeur
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Emil Eifrem
(Neo Technology / Neo4j)
Average rating:
(3.77, 22 ratings)
This workshop will show you how to build a high-performance social network backend based on the open source Neo4j graph database. We will investigate the implementation of a small but working social network backend with simple but powerful APIs to find paths between people and analyze the social graph. Finally, we will show how it outperforms a relational backend by a factor of 1000x or more.
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Jacob Kaplan-Moss
(Revolution Systems, LLC),
Frank Wiles
(Revolution Systems, LLC)
Average rating:
(4.29, 14 ratings)
So you've written a Django site... now what? Writing the application is just
the beginning; now you've got to put it into production! In this hands-on
workshop we'll walk through the creation of a full Django deployment
environment running on a cluster of (virtual) machines.
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Mike Mueller
(Python Academy)
Average rating:
(2.88, 17 ratings)
Although Python programs may be slow for certain types of tasks, there are many different ways to improve performance. This tutorial will introduce optimization strategies and demonstrate techniques to implement them.
Participants will learn how to decide what might be the optimal solution for a certain performance problem. Participants are strongly recommended to bring laptops.
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Lars Kurth
(Citrix Systems Ltd),
Paul Beusterien
(Symbian Foundation)
Average rating:
(2.75, 4 ratings)
During this tutorial, we will discuss the global platform opportunities at Symbian, along with how to best create, develop and deploy a web app using our Symbian Web Tools. Then we will explore Qt, a cross platform application and UI framework. Using Qt you can deploy apps across desktop, mobile and embedded operating systems without rewriting the source code.
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James Urquhart
(CNET)
Average rating:
(2.90, 10 ratings)
If cloud computing is one natural conclusion of open source business models, what kind of cloud ecosystem would best support open source as a whole? Join James Urquhart, author of the "Wisdom of Clouds" blog on the CNET blog network, as he explores the technology and business models that could drive the open source opportunities of tomorrow--and a few that won't.
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Mike Biglan
(Concentric Sky),
M Wiggins
(Concentric Sky)
Average rating:
(2.92, 12 ratings)
We were fortunate this past year to develop two of the larger Django applications out there – in the span of 12 weeks: michaelmoore.com and Santa Fe Institute's santafe.edu. Between the two, these sites have multiple layers of memcached caching, multiple web servers and database servers, integrated site search (Lucene/SOLR and Google GSA), DjangoCMS, and integrations with iCal and Alfresco.
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Robert Treat
(OmniTI)
Average rating:
(3.73, 26 ratings)
Database scalability means different things to different people. Vertical vs. Horizontal scaling? Federating vs. Sharding? Despite the labels database scalability tends to fall into a few common patterns that anyone can apply. In this talk we'll discuss factors for applying these patterns including the life-cycle of your database, how hardware affects your choices, and tools to help you on the way
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Doug Tidwell
(IBM)
Average rating:
(2.93, 15 ratings)
The Simple Cloud API is a project sponsored by several leading vendors (Zend, Go Grid, IBM, Microsoft, Nirvanix and Rackspace). This session will demonstrate how to use open-source implementations of the API to work with multiple cloud vendors.
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Tobias Ivarsson
(Neo Technology)
Average rating:
(3.00, 7 ratings)
In this session you will learn how to use the Neo4j Graph Database for persistence in Django web applications. A graph database, such as Neo4j, is a database that models data as a graph data structure with focus on the relationships between entities, and each node as its own entity, rather than the structure of data records. This makes it a good fit for object oriented web frameworks like Django.
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Matt Ingenthron
(Couchbase, Inc.)
Average rating:
(2.90, 10 ratings)
Like most web applications, memcached and MySQL formed the data foundation beneath Farmville - until mid-2010. As the popularity of that application skyrocketed, a more effective system was needed to sustain FarmVille's 500,000 operations per second. In response, NorthScale, Zynga and NHN developed _membase_ - a distributed, key-value database that is 100% compatible with memcached.
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Average rating:
(3.05, 19 ratings)
Admist a number of proprietary alternatives such as Adobe Flash,
Microsoft Silverlight, and Sun JavaFX, the HTML 5 specification now
offers competitive multimedia features that promises a more open
platform for RIA development. What are the tradeoffs? This session
will look at the current state of the art, and then invite a
conversation about the future.
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Jeff Dworkin
(Dialogic Corporation)
Average rating:
(3.00, 3 ratings)
Open-source has made it possible for nearly anyone with a bit of development background to create a telecom application. This presentation will discuss the details of designing application interfaces that need to be used in a "listen only" mode and will include good prompt design, application flow and menu design for both DTMF and ASR implementation.
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Matthew Russell
(Digital Reasoning Systems)
Average rating:
(2.69, 13 ratings)
A non-classified case study that describes how we've built a stack based on MALLET, Hadoop/Cassandra, and Flare/Flex to build a highly scalable system for the U.S. intelligence community: MALLET lends itself to state of the art NLP, Hadoop/Cassandra yield a massively distributed back end, and Flare/Flex provide the tools for creating a great UI/UX capable of performing advanced analysis.
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John Koleszar
(Google, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.29, 7 ratings)
With the introduction of WebM video, high quality, royalty-free, open-source video is finally a reality. Already natively integrated into the majority of HTML5 web browsers, WebM’s VP8 video codec is drawing tremendous support from content owners, video encoding tool producers, and hardware vendors, and has been discussed as an open video alternative for the HTML5 specification.
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Sean Sullivan
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Average rating:
(3.00, 35 ratings)
WebSockets is an exciting new technology that enables bidirectional communication between web applications and server-side processes. Google's Chrome browser already provides WebSockets and developers can expect to see the technology in other browsers in 2010. This presentation will cover the WebSocket protocol, JavaScript API, and server-side implementations.
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Matt MacLaurin
(Microsoft FUSE Labs)
Average rating:
(5.00, 5 ratings)
Kodu is a new, purpose-built programming language designed as a first programming experience for kids or folks who want a very accessible intro to programming. Kodu is a visual language embedded in a 3D world, with language features specifically aimed at game design and interactivity programming. While deceptively simple, Kodu also introduces advanced concepts such as concurrency and arbitration.
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Alex Martelli
(Google)
Average rating:
(3.33, 9 ratings)
Does Python have Design Patterns? You bet! Whatever the misguided meme going around is claiming to the contrary, every field of human endeavor has Patterns, and so of course does Python. This talk shows how and why, recapping what Patterns are all about, Design patterns in particular, and presenting examples of how they work best in Python, both singly and as part of a Language of Patterns.
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Justin Erenkrantz
(The Apache Software Foundation),
Lance Albertson
(Oregon State University Open Source Lab),
John Hawley
(Linux Foundation / Kernel.org)
Average rating:
(1.73, 11 ratings)
Behind the scenes of many successful open source projects is a team of elves who keep the critical project infrastructure (mailing lists, websites, networks, mirrors, etc.). How does Apache run Apache? How does kernel.org run Linux? Learn some of their secrets in this session as the folks behind the curtain come out and share their experiences with the OSCON community.
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Trotter Cashion
(Mashion, LLC)
Average rating:
(3.08, 13 ratings)
Having trouble ensuring that all your machines are provisioned properly? Find your system of bash scripts difficult to maintain? Come meet Chef and see how easy automated system provisioning can be. We'll cover the benefits of using a tool like Chef, how easy it is to get started with Chef Solo, and how you can scale up to hundreds and even thousands of boxes without breaking a sweat.
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Tobias Ivarsson
(Neo Technology)
Average rating:
(2.29, 7 ratings)
Python is a great Programming Language. The JVM is a great runtime platform. Jython is an excellent implementation of Python for the JVM. But there is room for improvement. In this talk I will share with you how Jython is evolving to become even better in the future. Learn how you can take advantage of the improving Jython in your code.
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Steven Parkes
(smparkes.net llc)
Average rating:
(2.42, 12 ratings)
Testing is JavaScript's Achilles' heel: the language is powerful with
good library support, but testing practices are cumbersome to
non-existent. This talk demonstrates a set of tools that make
test/behavior driven development in JavaScript as quick and effective
as Java, Ruby, or Python, including aspects unique to
JavaScript such as the browser environment and asynchronous
programming.
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Leif Hedstrom
(Cisco)
Average rating:
(4.20, 5 ratings)
Apache Traffic Server is an Open Source project implementing a caching HTTP proxy server, donated to the Apache Foundation by Yahoo! We will examine the technical details behind TS, what it's good for, and how you can configure it to accelerate your web traffic.
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Michael Meeks
(Novell, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.73, 11 ratings)
The MeeGo platform is an exciting new project, unifying the
best of the Moblin and Maemo projects. Come and see how it all stacks
up from Netbook to hand-set, and get excited about the wealth of
usability and possibility.
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Mel Chua
(Red Hat),
Asheesh Laroia
(OpenHatch)
Average rating:
(3.75, 4 ratings)
"Turn someone else's problems into your learning material." How do you expose your project's bugs and tasks to enthusiastic new contributors? We'll be talking about how OpenHatch's software tools and process-creating guidance make it possible to reveal a FOSS project's bug and task needs to budding contributors, students, and educators creating and running FOSS courses.
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Theo Schlossnagle
(OmniTI/Circonus)
Average rating:
(3.57, 7 ratings)
Monitoring systems to collect metrics is systems administration 101. However, systems are more complicated, there are more metrics and correlation is a must to troubleshoot problems or plan for growth. As our problem got bigger, our tools didn't get better. Reconnoiter is a large-scale monitoring and trend analysis system designed to nip these problems in the bud.
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Eric Wilhelm
(Sourcefire, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.15, 13 ratings)
Long-running functions get in the way of distributed or interactive systems. Applying these "lazy component" designs and use-cases to your sequential code will make your APIs more open and easily reusable.
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Wez Furlong
(Message Systems, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.00, 2 ratings)
Production services need to stay up, which means that there is low tolerance for downtime in the face of instability, and perhaps even less for debugging during root-cause analysis. Gimli presents an automated process supervisor and fault analyzer that creates human readable fault traces and re-spawns a downed process. Gimli is intended to reduce time and effort during fault analysis.
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Robert Johnson
(Facebook)
Average rating:
(3.29, 17 ratings)
One piece of software we've found to be particularly useful in scaling our site is Scribe, an open source system for aggregating massive amounts of logging data from thousands of machines, or more generally moving around large amounts of data in an asynchronous and mostly-reliable way.
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Trotter Cashion
(Mashion, LLC)
Average rating:
(3.58, 12 ratings)
Your QA cycle is broken and unit tests aren't enough to fix it. QA takes too long, is too error prone, and never covers as much as we need. To really do QA right, you need automated integration and acceptance testing tools like Cucumber. In this talk, we'll discuss why automated integration testing is a necessity, how you can do it, and why your coworkers and boss will thank you for it.
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Rabble Evan Henshaw-Plath
(cuboxsa.com),
Gabriela Rodriguez
(PyLadies)
Average rating:
(3.60, 5 ratings)
This talk will be about what's happening in testing. The general argument is that we're moving away from testing units towards testing functionality through integration testing. Improved mocking libraries, scripted and emulated browsers, fixtures, and frameworks means that we can effectively test that a system works.
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Brian Aker
(HP)
Average rating:
(4.14, 7 ratings)
Ever wanted to get a bit more out of Memcached? Wondering how to set it up for redundancy or load check your server? This talk will go over all of the latest features to libmemcached. This will include information on how to setup replication, how to build a server with libmemcached-protocol, and how to pick the best hashing algorithm.
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