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Date: Saturday, 6 June 2009, 8:30 AM Location: UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley, Room 119, 10420 Bubb Road, Cupertino, CA 95014 Note: Location has been moved for wifi access. Please visit our site sponsor and their excellent educational programs.  Cost: $125 members and $145 non-members Registration closed. Please bring cash or check to the event. We try will accomodate you. Included in the registration price is coffee for breaks and a TOGO's lunch The first 25 to register for the class will receive $125 of free Cloud Computing time in the www.GoGrid.com Cloud. |
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Topic
Do you have a technical background in other areas and you want to get started in Cloud Computing? Do you want to find out more about Map-Reduce and scaling up flexibly on a larger number of CPUs? What tools should be used by a new person to get started quickly or for an experienced development group to develop large scale enterprise system? Do you want to better understand how how one architects systems in the Cloud?
This training session goes over basic cloud concepts in general along with the advantages of Cloud vs. traditional computing. To make things tangible, there is a walk through of the mechanics needed to get an existing, small sample application up an running on a cloud provider. Then the session will cover how such a system could incrementally scale up to dozens or hundreds of CPUs. Architecture principles and decisions will cover how to design and scale systems from small to a huge scale.
Also being presented is what it takes to get an application running on a distributed cluster infrastructure, and how it differs from traditional methods. As an experienced MapReduce/Hadoop and other scale-free technologies, Chris will illustrate the concept with real life use cases that he has worked with.
The end of the training seminar will allow for questions and an open discussion. Bring your questions and challenges.
About the Speakers
Dave Nielsen is a Web Services industry professional with over 6 years of experience guiding high profile developer programs for companies such as PayPal, Strikeiron, and many others. As a seasoned developer, entrepreneur, technical evangelist and director of partner programs, Dave's experience gives him the experience and credibility to help guide your product strategy and develop a developer marketing plan to help you succeed.
Dave is the founder of CloudCamp and author of the book PayPal Hacks. Dave holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business (Marketing) from Cal Poly State University: San Luis Obispo (aka Cal Poly: SLO). See also http://www.platformd.com/management.html
Chris K Wensel has been a Software and Systems Architect for over 15 years. He's a Principal at Scale Unlimited, a professional services company offering commercial training and consulting for Hadoop and related scale-free architectures. He is also the founder of Concurrent, Inc., and the author of the Cascading data processing open-source project.
Over the last 7 years he has deployed large and sophisticated data processing applications for use by companies providing geo-spatial, web content, and financial data services in both the traditional enterprise data-center and on Amazon EC2. See also www.scaleunlimited.com