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

[James Holden]

All,

Just a quick reminder that the meeting is tonight, in case anyone missed
it on wylug-announce.

Cheers,

James

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> Subject: [Wylug-announce] 12th July 2010 Meeting: Tim Nash –
> Pre-emptive	systems scaling
> Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:07:48 +0100
> 
> 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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