Boston Scalability
User Group

BostonSUG meets again next week at the IBM Innovation Center in Waltham, MA.  The meeting is on Wednesday March 25 at 6 p.m.

This month we’ll share our experience with building and deploying applications and making them scalable.  This is an open-ended discussion with no specific agenda or technology on the table.  Instead we’ll share what we’ve learned to build scalable software.

Of course specific software will come up during the discussion and we’ll delve into use-cases, advantages the software brings and also the debt we accrue because of it.  Topics here include anything from in-house data grids to memcached on EC2 and everything in between.

Not only should we look at the past and present, we’ll also discuss some interesting possibilities for future development projects.  Hadoop on EC2 is gaining popularity, Rails 3 is due sometime this year – how do these help us build scalable software?

Building scalable applications is one thing but how do we gain the popularity and usage patterns that require real scalability?  Share your opinions and experience at next week’s meeting!

Date: Wednesday March 25
Time: 6 p.m.
Location: IBM Innovation Center 404 Wyman St. (North Entrance) Waltham, MA 02451

If you think you will attend this meeting please register at our registration page.  Attendance is always free and you can attend even if you don’t register.

If you can’t make it to this meeting but want to find out about future meetings you can join our announcement list.

Please send any feedback to anthony@bostonsug.org.

See you next week!

Our next meeting is Wednesday March 25 at 6 p.m.

This will be an informal meeting without a set topic or presentation.  Instead I’d like to have the round-table discussion that was originally scheduled for January.

Do you have questions about the best use of Amazon Web Services?  What are the pros and cons of using an event-based architecture?  Have you got experience using memcached that you’d like to share?  Still unsure of why you’d want to use a data grid like Coherence or WebSphere eXtreme Scale?  This is the meeting you’ve been waiting for if you have these questions or answers to them.  Bring any questions or experience you have to the table and we’ll all come away from the meeting more knowledgeable and capable of building scalable applications.  Topics are not limited to those listed here.

We will also look ahead at what is to come in the rest of 2009.  Will Rails 3.0 be the platform of choice for building scalable apps?  How will Open Source Java projects like Hibernate Shards fair in ‘09?  Does Google AppEngine have what it takes to gain major marketshare?  What will define “Cloud Computing” this year and how will you use it in your projects?  When does it make sense to virtualize your infrastructure?

We’ll meet at the IBM Innovation Center.  404 Wyman St. North Entrance Waltham, MA 02451.  We’ll get started around 6 p.m.  Everyone is welcome and attendance is always free.

Please register for the meeting if you think you will attend.  Registering helps us make a guess about how much food to get.

Can’t make this meeting but want to find out about future meetings?  Sign up for our announcement list.

You can send questions, comments and feedback to anthony@bostonsug.org.

See you on the 25th at 6 p.m.!