August 27 Meeting Announcement
Hello everyone,
I’m very happy to announce our next meeting will take place on Wednesday August 27 at 6 p.m. in the IBM Innovation Center in Waltham, MA.
Delivering Highly Scalable Web Sites and Applications
Since 1999, Akamai has built a large-scale distributed system with
30,000+ servers spread across 1000+ networks and 70+ countries. Akamai’s
technology-at its core, applied mathematics and algorithms-manages the
distribution of large content libraries and intelligently optimizes
routes to accelerate dynamic sites and applications. “Cloud Computing”
may be the new buzzword in the industry, but Akamai has been managing
its service as a cloud since its introduction 10 years ago.
This talk will provide in-depth information about Akamai solutions and
technologies, focusing on strategies for scaling your Web
infrastructure. In addition, the following topics will also be covered
along with best practices with clear examples and real world results.
- A Behind the Scene view of how Caching Works
- Best Practices for Cache settings, HTML and AJAX Configurations for Optimum Site Performance
- Overcoming Performance and Reliability challenges for Dynamic Web and IP Based Enterprise Applications
- Leveraging Akamai’s Open Developer Toolkit to rapidly build Video Player Applications
Tom O’Hare – Akamai Technologies
Tom O’Hare is a Technical Manager in Global Services and Support at
Akamai. During Tom’s 8 years at Akamai, he’s led customer engagements on
many different types of online content including, dynamic
business-to-business portals, online retail sites, and next generation
social networks.
The Akamai Difference
Akamai(r) provides market-leading managed services for powering rich
media, dynamic transactions, and enterprise applications online. Having
pioneered the content delivery market one decade ago, Akamai’s services
have been adopted by the world’s most recognized brands across diverse
industries. The alternative to centralized Web infrastructure, Akamai’s
global network of tens of thousands of distributed servers provides the
scale, reliability, insight and performance for businesses to succeed
online. An S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100 company, Akamai has transformed the
Internet into a more viable place to inform, entertain, interact, and
collaborate. To experience The Akamai Difference, visit www.akamai.com.
There will be pizza and water/soda as usual. Please register for the meeting to help us order enough!
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Coming September 24: Billy Newport from IBM to talk about WebSphere eXtreme Scale. Abstract and announcement coming soon.
The IBM Innovation Center is located at 404 Wyman St. Waltham, MA 02451. See you on August 27th!
Anthony