Boston Scalability
User Group

In one week BostonSUG meets at the IBM Innovation Center in Waltham, MA.  This is a great opportunity to see IBM Distinguished Engineer Billy Newport speak about the evolution of what is now known as WebSphere eXtreme Scale.  eXtreme Scale addresses a lot of the “high-X” application requirements.  Billy will talk about how to build applications that provide high availability for datasets, taking advantage of in-memory object grids for high-throughput transaction processing and a lot more.  We’ll also get Billy’s take on cloud computing and how to work with applications and data in the cloud.

We’ll have plenty of pizza and raffles for O’Reilly books.  All the meeting details can be found on the announcement page.  Please register for this meeting if you plan to attend (it helps us order the right amount of food), but you can always attend even if you don’t register.  Best of all, attendance is free!

I hope to see everyone next Wednesday night (September 24, 2008) at 6 p.m. at the IBM Innovation Center.  404 Wyman St. Waltham, MA 02451 (click for map and directions).

If you have any questions please contact me via email. <anthony> <at> <bostonsug> dot <org>

Anthony

This is a reminder that the BostonSUG August meeting takes place *tomorrow night* August 27th at 6 p.m. We meet at the IBM Innovation Center located at 404 Wyman St. Waltham, MA 02451. As usual there will be pizza and drinks for everyone, sponsored by Akamai.

This month we have two presenters from Akamai Technologies: Tom O’Hare and Rakesh Chaudhary. We will be covering a lot of ground at this meeting, including digital media topics. There is still time to sign up so head to our meeting registration page to reserve your seat (and pizza!). Of course you can always attend even if you do not sign up in advance.

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
• Evolution of online video + technology trends
• Overcoming Performance and Scalability challenges in delivering high quality video over the web
• 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.

Rakesh Chaudhary - Akamai Technologies
Rakesh Chaudhary manages Akamai’s Media Solutions Team. Rakesh has spent 7 years at Akamai, architecting scalable fault-tolerant systems for large scale enterprises spanning media & entertainment, sports, b2c portal and telecom industries.

See you tomorrow at 6!

Anthony Chaves

This is just a reminder that our next meeting will be held in just one week on August 27th at 6 p.m. in the IBM Innovation Center in Waltham, MA.

This will be a very exciting meeting with two often-requested speakers from Akamai Technologies. Tom O’Hare and Rakesh Chaudhary will present on the following topics:

• 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
• Evolution of online video + technology trends
• Overcoming Performance and Scalability challenges in delivering high quality video over the web
• Leveraging Akamai’s Open Developer Toolkit to rapidly build Video Player Applications

There is still plenty of time to sign up for the meeting if you plan to attend.  Signing up for the meeting helps us plan how much food to order.  Of course there will be pizza and drinks at this meeting!  You can sign up at our registration page.  The food will arrive at 5:45 and the meeting will begin at 6.

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

See you next week Wednesday at 6 p.m.!

Anthony