Announcing the Boston Scalability User Group!
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.