Boston Scalability
User Group

A big thank you to everyone that came to last night’s meeting.  We had a great turnout to see Greg Leake’s presentation on the StockTrader 2.0 app and the Configuration Services.  Greg’s presentation included full demos of the StockTrader interoperability with IBM’s version of the application.  Greg successfully demo’d the fact that a service is a service by running the .NET web front end against the WebSphere business services and the WebSphere web front end against the .NET business services.  He also showed the dynamic clustering and load balancing facilities in StockTrader 2.0 that are easily configured using the Configuration Services included with StockTrader 2.0.  This isn’t even the tip of the iceberg as Greg had a jam-packed two-hour-plus presentation that covered a lot of ground.  We would like to thank Greg for coming all the way to Waltham after his user group tour started in San Fransisco last week!

We would also like to thank Microsoft for hosting the meeting and providing the pizza.  Chris Bowen and Linh Dinh did most of the heavy lifting to arrange this meeting and it was a big success.

Thanks again to everyone that attended last night!  I’m very happy with the level of audience participation and insightful questions that people ask our speakers.  Check back soon for the May meeting announcement.

Hello everyone,

I’m happy to announce our April meeting will take place on Wednesday April 23 at 6 p.m. It’s important to note that our meeting location this month will be at Microsoft in Waltham, MA, a couple exits up from our IBM Innovation Center meeting location.

This month we will have Greg Leake present his new .NET StockTrader 2.0 application. This presentation will focus on building highly scalable applications using the Windows Communication Foundation found in .NET 3.0 and ASP.NET. Other important topics to be discussed are interoperability, particularly with JavaEE applications and SOA. The .NET StockTrader 2.0 application is a service-oriented application. You can find out more about it at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/bb499684.aspx. I highly recommend getting familiar with the technical overview before the meeting as there is a lot of good information in there that directly relates to application scalability.

.NET StockTrader/SOA Session

Subject: The .NET StockTrader is an end-to-end sample application for .NET Enterprise Application Server technologies. It is a distributed service-oriented application based on the .NET Framework, specifically using Windows Communication Foundation and ASP.NET. This session will illustrate how many of the .NET enterprise development technologies are made for building highly scalable, rich “enterprise-connected” applications. Greg will also be doing a full demo of this application and how he has designed this application to be a benchmark kit.

Speaker: Greg Leake works in the Connected Systems Division at Microsoft. Greg has been at the company for about 15 years and has held several positions including a few in the Developer Division. He currently spends most of his time developing new enterprise software and samples that focus on interoperability, scalability and performance. Go to the link below to find out more about Greg and his work on the .NET Framework.

There will be pizza and drinks this month, sponsored by Microsoft. In order to know about how much food to order please register for this meeting! It’s just like reserving a few slices of pizza for yourself!

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Free Books!

One of the benefits of being a member of BostonSUG is that you can request a free review copy of any O’Reilly book.  One book I’d like to see a BostonSUG member review is James Murty’s Programming Amazon Web Services.  It’s a recent release so if you get it quickly you could be the first one to review it on O’Reilly’s site, Amazon.com or Slashdot.  There has been a lot of talk about Amazon’s web services recently so getting this book and getting a review out there would be a big help to a lot of people (myself included)!

Let me know if you’re interested and I’ll request the book for you.  Once your review is done I’d like to post it on the BostonSUG web site and send it on to O’Reilly and Slashdot.  Don’t want to write a review?  Read on!

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Another benefit of being a BostonSUG member is that we get a 35% discount on O’Reilly, No Starch, Paraglyph, PC Publishing, Pragmatic Bookshelf, Rocky Nook, SitePoint, or YoungJin products purchased directly from O’Reilly.  Orders can be made online at the O’Reilly Store.

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