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Exploring MongoDB, by 10gen

March 23, 2013 by

Speaker: Craig Wilson

Date: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 7:00pm – 8:00pm CST

Location: Paladin Consulting

MongoDB is a robust, simple, and free alternative to mainstream data stores.  Craig will walk through what MongoDB is and how it can fit into your environment, including how replica sets work with tips and tricks for maintenance and backups.  In addition, he’ll discuss schema design and how it differs from traditional approaches allowing freedom and flexibility.

Craig Wilson is a software engineer with 10gen, the MongoDB Company.  He lives in Dallas with his wife and 3 kids and loves taking them to the zoo and parks when he isn’t programming.  He has been an enterprise architect, consultant, and developer in a variety of industries ranging from insurance and finance to retail.  He got into MongoDB by looking for an open-source project to contribute to and began by contributing to the .NET driver for MongoDB.

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Windows Azure: The Microsoft Cloud Platform

March 1, 2013 by

Speaker: Casey Watson

Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 7:00pm – 8:00pm CST

Location: Paladin Consulting

Unless you’ve been developing under a rock for the last year you’ve no doubt heard the deafening buzz in the development community around “the cloud.” But what is it? How can you take full advantage of it? Where do you begin? The cloud is more than a clever marketing buzzword. Much more.

In this session, Casey begins by guiding the audience on a high-level tour of general cloud-related concepts then takes a deep dive into the two major cloud computing platforms, Microsoft’s Azure and Amazon’s AWS, through a series of interactive exercises. In this session you will learn the fundamental concepts of cloud computing including the range of execution models that each of these platforms support.

The session will conclude with an audience-driven discussion covering special architectural considerations that should be taken when designing software for the cloud. By the end of the session you should know all that you need to hit the ground running creating massively scalable applications on these incredibly powerful cloud platforms. If you’re curious about the cloud then you owe it to yourself to attend this session.

 

 


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DevOps Now: A Fourteen Year Study Of High Performing IT Organizations

February 10, 2013 by

Speaker: Gene Kim

Date: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 7:00pm – 8:00pm CST

Location: Paladin Consulting

Gene Kim will be presenting his findings from an ongoing study of how high-performing IT organizations simultaneously deliver stellar service levels and deliver fast flow of new features into the production environment.  To successfully deliver against what on the surface appear to be conflicting objectives, (i.e. preserving service levels while introducing significant amounts of change into production), requires creating a highly-coordinated collection of teams where Development, QA, IT Operations, as well as Product Management and Information Security genuinely work together to solve business objectives.

Gene will describe what successful transformations look like, and how those transformations were achieved from a software development and service operations perspective.  He will draw upon fourteen years of research of high-performing IT organizations, as well as work he’s done since 2008 to help some of the largest Internet companies increase feature flow and production stability through applications of DevOps principles.


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DevOps at GameStop

January 30, 2013 by

Speakers:
Joey Guerra – Dev
Jason Wainwright – SWAT (Ops)
Kijana Woodard – Dev
Michael Sanders – QA
Hampton Reese – Dev
Zach Burke – Dev

Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 7:00pm – 8:00pm CST

Location: Paladin Consulting

This month we will have a team from GameStop that has implemented DevOps practices in their business. Several speakers will present various perspectives and we will learn about their experiences and what has happened since these principles have been applied.


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CI for the Manual Build Guy

January 10, 2013 by

Speaker: Dennis Palmer

Date: Thursday, November 8, 2012 7:00pm – 8:00pm CST

Location: Paladin Consulting

Does your software delivery process involve more than a single click? Do software packages that were compiled on a developer’s machine ever end up in production? Do you ever skip steps in the build-test-deploy-verify process because they take too long or you just forgot one time because there are a dozen manual steps to follow? Is it difficult for you to roll back to a previous version if you find a serious issue with the version that’s now in production?

Continuous Integration (CI) is a fancy term for an automated process to manage software building, testing and deployment. It’s quite ironic that people who write software all the time to solve other people’s problems fail to take the time to develop a few scripts to make their own lives easier.

I will share my recent experience implementing the TeamCity automated build server for a .NET project and some of the serendipitous benefits we noticed almost right away. (TeamCity is actually written in Java and supports building and deploying just about any type of software.) There were a number of small gotchas, but the payoff has been tremendous. I hope my experience will help and encourage you to add some automation into your life.

I’ll also be demoing TeamCity’s ability to host an internal NuGet (.NET’s package manager) feed, which makes reusing common code libraries across multiple projects a breeze.


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What a FUN event!

October 22, 2012 by

I am still so excited from this weekend’s conference! We had a lot of fun and learned so much from our quality speakers from Red Hat, Collab.net, and Google! If you haven’t seen the presentations yet, here are some permalinks:

Practical Open Source

Understanding DevOps – Business & IT

DART – Structured Web Development

You can also find these sessions and more under the PAST EVENTS link in the navigation. Registration for the next event happens soon, so look back here soon!

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DART – Structured Web Development

October 20, 2012 by

Speaker: Shannon “JJ” Behrens

Date: Saturday, October 20, 2012 1:00pm – 2:00pm CST

Location: AT&T Foundry

Learn about Dart, a new programming language from Google Dart is a new class-based programming language for creating structured web applications. Developed with the goals of simplicity, efficiency, and scalability, the Dart language combines powerful new language features with familiar language constructs into a clear, readable syntax.


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Understanding DevOps – Business & IT

October 20, 2012 by

Speaker: Paul Peissner

Date: Saturday, October 20, 2012 12:00pm – 1:00pm CST

Location: AT&T Foundry

DevOps is grounded in the belief that IT operations and IT development (engineering and QA) can truly work as one IT resource to drive business agility. DevOps enables cross-functional IT teams to deliver projects faster and make service adjustments more frequently, at improved quality and reduced cost. This talk is designed for enterprise architects, IT development, IT operations and change management personnel interested in enhancing their collaborative landscape.


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Practical Open Source

October 20, 2012 by

Speaker: Stefan Negrea

Date: Saturday, October 20, 2012 10:30am – 11:30am CST

Location: AT&T Foundry

Open source is not just access to source code, it’s a totally different paradigm for developing software. This presentation will focus on practical aspects of using and contributing to open source projects such as open source licensing, getting support for open source software, and how to adopt open source in enterprise.


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How to Join the Hangout (online)

October 20, 2012 by

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