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Philly Emerging Technologies Podcast 2011 - #3

How MongoDB Helps Visibiz Tackle Social CRM

Speaker - Mike Brocious - Lead Architect, Visibiz

From the ETE Session Abstract

So you’ve heard about MongoDB and it sounds really sweet (BTW, it is!). Now you’re thinking about using it in your application. We can’t tell you if it’s right for your application, but we can tell you how we’re using it at Visibiz and that might help you with your implementation.

This presentation provides a use case of MongoDB at Visibiz. It first discusses why we chose to use MongoDB as our application’s primary datastore (what were the relevant application requirements and perceived benefits). It then covers how we’re using MongoDB in the application, touching on schema design of the primary collection and listing several secondary uses for it in the architecture. We also touch on lessons learned, as well as pros and cons.

Direct download: How_MongoDB_Helps_Visibiz_Tackle_Social_CRM.mp3
Category:ETE Sessions -- posted at: 2:00pm EDT

Philly Emerging Technologies Podcast 2011 - #2

Doing the Mundane a Million Times a Minute

Speaker - Mark Chadwick, Invite Media/Google

From the ETE Session Abstract

When dealing with high-volume distributed systems, even the most mundane tasks can be daunting challenges. This talk describes some of the steps, as well as missteps, made while building such a system. It will work through the discovery of such pain points, as well as describe their resolutions with specific technologies or patterns.

Over the course of three years, Invite Media built a high-volume system for serving online advertisements from the ground up. Some of the more interesting challenges revolved around operating routine services at scale, such as distributing requests, logging diagnostics, and keeping track of simple transactions.

This talk will dive into some of these problems, showing the evolution of simple systems at scale, with a strong bias towards cloud-hosted applications. It will include details about the discovery and resolution of bottlenecks we experienced, as well as specific technologies and pattens discovered in the process.

It may serve as a springboard for ideas when building distributed cloud-based systems, as well as hone a sense of when components may be reaching their tipping point.

Direct download: Doing_the_Mundane_a_Million_Times_a_Minute.mp3
Category:ETE Sessions -- posted at: 11:30am EDT

We continue our interview with Eric Shamow of Puppet Labs.  Show notes to follow soon, please refer to information from TechCast Episode 65 for now.  

Puppet Labs can be found at www.puppetlabs.com, and they are hosting PuppetConf, a conference on the west coast that is not only about Puppet.  

A word from our sponsor, Chariot Solutions:

Mark your calendars:  Chariot's DevOps seminar - October 18, 2011 at the Penn State Great Valley campus in the Philadelphia suburbs.  We'll have speakers from Chariot, CloudBees, NING, Puppet Labs, Sonatype, and a panel discussion at the end.  Lunch is provided as well. Save on our early bird - $75 instead of the already low price of $99.  More information on the event page.

Also, if Scala is your thing, come to our Fast Track to Scala training in New York City on October 4-5, 2011.  Seats are still available but they will fill up fast.  The course is taught by Typesafe, the company Martin Odersky formed around Scala and Akka to move the language and frameworks forward.  Save $100 by using the coupon code 'techcast' during registration, which can be found at chariotsolutions.com/education.

Direct download: Chariot-TechCast-66-Eric-Shamow-Puppet-Labs-Part-2-2011-09-12.mp3
Category:techcast -- posted at: 3:38pm EDT

This week we catch up with all of the world's news in what normally is a quiet August. Then we discuss some new releases in the Firefox world, the new Java Lambda decision, Java 7 features, and a warning about Java 7 and Lucene.

Hosts:  Jason Gtitman and Ken Rimple

Show Notes

Direct download: chariot-devnews-38-2011-09-09.mp3
Category:devnews -- posted at: 8:48am EDT


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