Technology Lightning Talks

Presented buy Agilion Apps, Draker Laboratories, MicroStrain, Dealer.com, MyWebGrocer, and PIEMatrix on Mar. 21, 2012

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1. Lightning Talks Agilion Apps Draker Laboratories MicroStrain Dealer.com MyWebGrocer PIEMatrix
2. 95% of all Solar Development Projects will not receive funding about
4. technology
5. scale • focus on minimal features • fast iterations • EngineYard
6. lesson • hashed_attributes
7. about Development Office Sentalis - web application
8. • Ruby on Rails • MySQL • Redis • Amazon (AWS) • Github technology
9. • Non-relational time series data • Data growth • JVM scale • TDD • Resque
10. • gather & evolve requirements • TDD & BDD are invaluable • Benchmark realistic scenarios • Don't prolong the inevitable lesson
11. about
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13. Infrastructure • AWS ◦ EC2 ◦ S3 ◦ SimpleDB ◦ SQS ◦ Route 53 ◦ ELB • memcache • LXC technology Back End • Python • C/C++ • R • Octave Front End • Flex (flash) • Javascript ◦ jQuery ◦ Backbone JS Automation & Test • Python ◦ Fabric ◦ Nose ◦ Mock • Hudson
14. • Moved away from MySQL ◦ Custom datastore using S3/SimpleDB (very scalable, throughput is limited per channel) • ELB AutoScale ◦ spin up/down on demand scale
15. • Automated testing is hard to retrofit • Prototypes are disposable lessons
16. about
17. technology
18. scale
19. lesson
20. about
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22. The right tool for the right job technology
23. technology ASP.NET Wordpress Azure HTML/5 Ruby on Rails Java Hadoop Mahout Solr jQuery Node.js Compass Sass Modernizr and all the rest...
24. Stay current scale
25. How a VM can ruin your whole day (month, quarter) lesson
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29. Online business execution platform. Help companies get their stuff done faster and better with implementing best practices. Customers gaining up to 40% efficiency increases. about
30. technology OS: Redhat Enterprise Linux Database: MySQL, Multi-tenant unique databases Web/Application Server: Apache/Tomcat RIA Front End: Adobe Flex Back-end Architecture: Java/Flex Data Services Hosting Partner: Rackspace
31. technology note ActionScript/MXML • VM Platform model • Guaranteed support • Code runs as delivered • IP is protected • Strong IDE support JavaScript/HTML5 • Multiple Platforms • Open to interpretation • Code can be altered • IP is vulnerable • Varied IDE support
32. scale Single client loads primary content from server Can load content from other servers per necessity
33. lesson