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Patrick Peralta has provided us with his slides from last week’s meeting.  Thanks Patrick!

Orchestrating Messaging, Data Grid and Database for Scalable Performance

I’d like to thank everyone for making last night’s meeting of BostonSUG a great success!  At our first meeting we had 20 people in attendance to see a great presentation by Patrick Peralta.  Patrick’s presentation certainly opened my eyes to what could be done with a data grid and I was especially interested in learning about the write-behind pattern used to interact with the data store.  We had a great Q&A session where we learned about Oracle’s Coherence product, recommended deployment topology and usage patterns.

Thanks again to everyone that came out and stay tuned for the meeting announcement for our April meeting!

Hello everyone,

Our first meeting will take place on Wednesday March 26 at 6 p.m. in the IBM Innovation Center (Waltham, MA). Our first speaker will be Patrick Peralta of Oracle! Patrick will be presenting:

Orchestrating Messaging, Data Grid and Database for Scalable Performance
Recent years have seen a surge in the number of tools available for building high-scale systems. In the areas of messaging, data grids and databases, many products combine high availability and horizontal “scale-out” across multiple machines. The overlap between these approaches, and the number of possible combinations, raises these questions — “How do I know which combination of technologies to use?” and “How do these technologies work together?”

This presentation compares and contrasts these options, identifying where each technology fits, doesn’t fit, and even when to use a technology that’s not the best fit. We will further explore how to integrate these components while understanding the tradeoffs between performance, scalability and reliability.

Patrick Peralta is a Software Engineer for Oracle, specializing in Coherence. Patrick’s software development experience includes implementing Java/J2EE middle tier solutions, web applications, system integrations, and Swing desktop clients. Prior to joining Oracle, Patrick was a Senior Developer at Symantec, working on J2EE and integration systems. He enjoys mentoring others on technology, and he especially enjoys participating in Open Source. Patrick has a BS in computer science from Stetson University in Florida.

Important Note: There will be pizza at this meeting!

Please register if you would like to attend this meeting.

The IBM Innovation Center is at 404 Wyman St. Waltham, MA 02451

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If you’ve made it to this page then you’ve probably figured out that the Boston Scalability User Group is the new group in town. The group was recently started to address the lack of ongoing professional discussion about application scalability. The goal of a scalable application is to have the ability to add capacity without diminishing the user experience. There are so many methods that can be used to achieve this goal and BostonSUG will enable software developers, architects, DBAs, and IT guys (and anyone else that might be interested) explore and discuss the tools, strategies and challenges involved with scaling a software application.

Scalability doesn’t apply to just one platform or just one programming language or just one application architecture or just one DBMS. At this point in time scalability considerations permeate almost all aspects of software development. There is no silver bullet that will instantly make your application scalable. Instead you have to work at it. BostonSUG will line up the foremost experts in the field to give presentations at each of our monthly meetings. Their presentations will be very technical and will encourage detailed discussion on some of the most cutting-edge software and best practice design considerations out there to give you the tools required to build a scalable software package.

The first several speakers should include representatives from Terracotta, Oracle and Microsoft with a lot more in the pipeline!

BostonSUG meets on the fourth Wednesday of each month at 6 p.m. The meeting location will be the IBM Innovation Center at 404 Wyman St. Waltham, MA unless otherwise noted. Here is the schedule of upcoming events:

March 26: Speaker TBD
April 23: Speaker TBD
May 28: Speaker TBD
June 25: Speaker TBD

Come prepared to think. Come prepared to learn. Come prepared to discuss.