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We'll keep track of events, signups, and maybe add some polls and things later if things get busy. We'll also be able to send reminders using this site and maybe even record presentations for later (TBD), or at least provide slides. By convention, the chapter meeting is the second Tuesday of every month at 7PM at 120 West 45th St in Manhattan, and graciously hosted by D. E. Shaw Reesearch on the 39th floor of Tower 45. (map below)
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How Knewton Uses AWS
Submitted by jlintz on Mon, Mar 26, 2012 - 17:46 Apr 10, 2012 7:00 pm
Since its founding in 2008, Knewton has been exclusively using AWS to power its adaptive learning platform. Peter Norton and Dave Zwieback will share the realities of running completely "in the cloud", and specific design patterns that improve scalability, availability, performance, and security in cloud-based systems. They'll cover topics such as EBS vs ephemeral (instance) storage; auto-scaling; automated deployment and configuration management; and decreasing instance boot time through AMI "stamping".
Riak: a distributed, replicated, fault-tolerant key-value database.
Submitted by doug on Fri, Feb 03, 2012 - 21:32 Feb 15, 2012 7:00 pm
Riak is an open-source, distributed, replicated, fault-tolerant, horizontally-scalable key-value database made by Basho Technologies. Sean Cribbs will cover Riak's major features, why you want to use it, strategies for integrating it into your infrastructure, and end with a live demo of deploying and manipulating a cluster in the cloud by Sean Carey.
Google SRE: When developers and sysadmins collaborate things get better faster
Submitted by doug on Sun, Nov 20, 2011 - 11:00 Jan 11, 2012 7:00 pm
As always, please signup for this event below so that we can submit your name to building security. Please use your real name on the registration form. Thanks.
Speaker: Thomas A. Limoncelli, Google NYC
Sysadmin teams and a software development teams have been known to
work closely together, not at all, or somewhere in between. What
happens when the barrier between such groups disappears and the two
teams become one? (The "DevOps" culture.) The recent trend has been
to incorporate “shared responsibility” for operational matters such as
Dell DCS
Submitted by doug on Mon, Oct 24, 2011 - 17:46 Nov 10, 2011 7:00 pm
Location:
120 West 45th St, 39th floor
Who We Are:
Data Center Solution(DCS) is segment of the Dell's Server Product Group with a specific focus on scale-out computing. The group was created back 2006 to focus on the Top 20 data centers in the world. From those leanings, Dell created the PE C Server product line which is the best of breed technologies from our work in the Top 20 data centers. The PE C line is focused on the next 1,000 data centers that want to become the next Twitter, Zynga, and Facebooks of the world.
What We Would Like To Do:
Matt Barr - adventures in moving a datacenter
Submitted by doug on Wed, Oct 05, 2011 - 11:27 Oct 11, 2011 7:00 pm
Summary:
Building a datacenter before your hardware arrives: Trials & tribulations of designing a datacenter and all it's infrastructure under tight deadlines, w/o out any hardware, using VMware, Puppet, and RHEL6.
Matthew Barr works as a lead SA for Wall St firm.
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120 West 45th Street, 39th floor. You must sign up using the below link if you wish to attend.
"Would you be interested in a tech talk from Dell's Advanced Solutions group on their current generation of Microservers (C5125)
Submitted by doug on Mon, Sep 26, 2011 - 20:17yes
100% (2 votes)
no
0% (0 votes)
Total votes: 2
Cassandra
Submitted by doug on Sat, Jul 30, 2011 - 16:26 Aug 02, 2011 7:00 pm
This month's meeting we'll be having a talk on Apache's Cassandra
database. From the Apache project page...
"The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable
second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's
fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model.
Cassandra was open sourced by Facebook in 2008, and is now developed
by Apache committers and contributors from many companies.
Cassandra is in use at Digg, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Rackspace,
Cloudkick, Cisco, SimpleGeo, Ooyala, OpenX, and more companies that
