[activities] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] Nov 28 Fri

I've been meaning to offer to do my EC2 talk I'm giving at OSDC.
Mainly since it will force me to prepare my slides before the actual
conference :)

=== Bootstrapping your application for just $3 a day and beyond - Amazon EC2, S3, SQS ===

In the past deploying a scalable web application could be a daunting
task. Not only requiring the provisioning or leasing of servers in a
data centre but worrying about hardware failures and the ongoing issue
of constantly provisioning more physical servers to scale your
application as it grew.

With the advent of Cloud or Utility Computing many of these issues
have disappeared, while some have been replaced with others. An
application can now be deployed to the cloud within a day and new
instances turned on within seconds or dynamically to meet demand.

This presentation will aim to cover off the providers in the Cloud
Computing ecosystem. The advantages and disadvantages of various
providers and the concept as a whole will be discussed.

Focus will then move more specifically on Amazon AWS and its
components. A quick demonstration will be given on the ease of
deploying new applications into an EC2 environment and hosting data
out of S3. Topics covered will include:

 * Amazon AWS Services
 - Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2)
 - Simple Storage Service (S3)
 - Simple Queuing System (SQL)
 - Simple DB (SDB)
 * Deploying an Application
 - Creating AMI's
 - Deploying Instances
 * Amazon APIs
 - PHP
 - Ruby
 - SOAP
 - etc
 * Limitations of the model
 * Scaling the service dynamically


On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 04:39:06PM +1100, SLUG_Secretary wrote:
> Hi Everyone from Sydney Linux Users Group -
> 
> SLUG needs an In Depth speaker for our Speakers slot after the break.
> 
>  This is a great opportunity for people who are speaking at
> OSDC - or
> linux.conf.au  - and
> would like to practice with a smaller (and perhaps more friendly) crowd.
> 
> Dinner is afterwards - a walk away - SLUG "shouts" dinner to Guest Speakers.
> 
> Usually SLUG takes up two round tables for a lazy-suzan banquet.
> (vegetarians provided for).
> 
> When:   28 November Friday evening
> Where:  on the Darling-Harbour side of Sydney between Wynyard and Town Hall.
>              (185 Sussex Street, Sydney, 2000)
> 
> Here's a link to SLUG Meeting page, with *map*.
> Please let the Committee know if you can help out.
> ([email protected])

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-- 
John
http://www.inodes.org/
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