Open Coffee Tech Meetup

Agenda

• Each 2 weeks• Everyone is encouraged to make a presentation about his domain• We will schedule and plan few presentations upfront• Clear understanding about the pro/cons about that technology/technique• 2 presentations each time (but that’s not a rule)

Presentations

Let’s try to have the same format• An objective point of view• Much easier to follow

Format that I propose:1. General Description2. Usage: common scenarios3. Architecture: Big Picture4. Architecture: Drill-down5. Comparison with main competitors (where it performs

better, worse, different, etc.)6. Real-life problem and solution using the selected technology7. Conclusions8. Discussions, Q&A, etc.

Technologies/Techniques

• Riak, Datomic, Voldemort• BigQuery, Hadoop• Couchbase• Neo4J, Gremlin, Redis, Varnish

• Hystrix, Kafka• Storm, StreamBase, Riemann• Zookeeper• Mahout• OpenStack• Octopus • StreamInsight• SSIS, SSRS, SSAS - (SQL Server)• [Mobile Services, HDInsight, Caching, SQL DB, Traffic Manager, etc.] from Azure• High Frequency Trading Systems

Technologies/Techniques

• NServiceBus, MassTransit, Azure Service Bus ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ• Google Protocol Buffers, Thrift, Avro• Solr/Lucene• Less/Css/Sass• Twitter Bootstrap• Backbone.js, Ember.js• Usability design• Scala• Gradle• Continuous integration in the cloud• PhoneGap/Apache Cordova• PostgreSQL for NoSQL

Tips & Tricks

• http://techblog.netflix.com/• http://infoq.com/• https://blog.twitter.com/developer• http://engineering.linkedin.com/blog• http://highscalability.com/