[Wylug-announce] 12th July 2010 Meeting: Tim Nash – Pre-emptive systems scaling

[James Holden]

All,

[ Note change of drinking venue! Further details below. ]

This months meeting will be on the 12th of July at Old Broadcasting
House in Leeds.

Tim Nash will be giving a talk on pre-emptively scaling systems based on
predicted demand.

Whenever a big humanitarian crisis occurs, major non government
organisations and charities put out appeals for money, to provide aid to
those in need.

Sadly not all attract the media or publics attention, in an age where a
single tweet can bring in thousands of visitors these organisations
donation system have to be able to handle strain of massive peaks in
traffic as you would expect when the requirement of high performance,
high availability is out there Linux based systems can be found.

Tim is going to discuss his recent work with the United Nations World
Food Program (wfp.org), in delivering a high scalable system and looks
how you can preempt and prepare for spikes in traffic using similar
methods to track tsunamis. Ultimately allowing agencies to ratchet up
their donation platforms a head of major surges in donations and then
reduce down the needed nodes when the public has forgotten and the real
work has started.

Tim is a “stuff consultant” (http://www.timnash.co.uk) currently working
with the United Nations World Food Program to help deliver a donation
system distributed across the internet, through a REST based API sitting
on Linux (Debian), Nginx, PHP/Ruby infrastructure.

The talk will begin at 7:00pm, with the doors opening from 6:30pm for
coffee and chat.

After the talk, we will move to Mr Foley’s on the Headrow for beer and
geeky chatter. No formal booking has been made, but if the back room is
available, then it would make sense to congregate in there.

Links/directions:

Old Broadcasting House - http://bit.ly/a8RfUI
Mr Foley’s - http://bit.ly/atf8PW


Cheers,

James


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James Holden                     Developer, SEO, Technology Consultant
http://jamesholden.net/                          Leeds, United Kingdom
http://twitter.com/jamesholden                            07989 702968
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