Geek Cruise III 2009 - Scalability in 2009

Introduction

Scalability has in the recent years become more and more vital in software development. In the race to web 2.0 or enterprise 2.0 enable today's enterprises, many of the internal systems are experiencing explosion in load. At the same time, most successful web 2.0 companies have been very open with their internal architecture and experiences. This workshop intend to kill a few myths and establish a baseline for architectural options for scalable systems in 2009. By publicizing this guide, we hope to help developers and architects to make better decisions in how to plan and build for these new scalability challenges.

Info - Date: 28-30.11 2009 - Place: Color Magic - Oslo - Kiel - Oslo - Departure Oslo: Saturday, November 28th, 2009 @ 11:00 - Terminalen i Oslo - Arrival Oslo: Monday, November 30th, 2009 @ 09:45 - Language: English (documentation and discussions) - Co-operation with - Profile sponsor: - Promo video: - Price: 6000,- NOK (All-inclusive, Cost-price ColorLine, cruise, food and beverage, seminar room) - Registration: send email with relevant info on your background/Bio to: cruise@cantara.no - List of participants - Geek Cruise 2009 - Workshop-facilitator: Totto - Project Organizer: Ingvild and Tobias	Motivation - Help the industry to make the next step forward - Gather the best possible set of industry-experts to spend a full two days together in discussions on how to push the market to new levels...		Workshop goals 1. Establish a exciting and fun discussion for important emerging enterprise technologies 2. Document ideas, different views and key findings to the open community 3. Provide a independent thought leader baseline for further work 4. Document starting points and directions for everyone interested

Experts often end up with the responsibility for taking important decisions, but frequently find themselves isolated and without peers to discuss these decisions with. If this applies to you, you now have the opportunity to work with other experts, which will give you enthusiasm, energy and new ideas for improving your working life.

Work and results - Several workshops during the two day cruise. - A clear and consistent flow of discussions, prioritized by participants. - Live publication of work-in-progress enables feedback, documentation and discussions from off-site participants. - All results will be licensed under Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution license. Key Topic - When to worry about scaling and how much effort to put into scaling at that point. (lead: Dan Creswell) - Characteristics of solutions mapped to (lead: Emil Eifrem ) - a) scalability in hardware/infrastructure - b) scalability in software platforms - c) scalability in software/solution - please add topics Required readings - Great slide deck from Cloudera on design patterns for distributed non-relational databases: http://bit.ly/Gl2wY - TBA Preliminary agenda - Intro Tobias - Warm up: Participants present a special Ligntning Talk - Rough overview of key themes. Group prioritize the themes. - Theme 1 - focus presentation - Theme 1 - Open Space details and key challenges (one or several groups) - Theme 1 - Presentation and documentation of key observations and findings. - Breakout: Theme 2 and Theme 3, same process as above (more or less) with Lightening talks of the lessons learnt - Reschedule agenda Agenda Saturday 1100-1200: Welcome and warm-up (Tobias). 1200-1400: Lightning talks: 1200-1215 LT1: [Why people confuse scalability with performance.] Bjørn Borud 1220-1235: LT2: [Why scalability is design] Dan Creswell 1240-1255: LT3: [CAP, why it matters.] Emil Eifreim 1300-1315: LT4: [Why web-success and late scalability kills my business] Johannes Brodwall 1320-1335: LT5: [Why enterprises need to wake up and think differently about scalability] Totto 1340-1355: LT6 1400-1445: Lunch 1500-1530: Theme 1 - focus presentation 1530-1630: Open Space details and key challenges (one or several groups) 1645-1730: Presentation and documentation of key observations and findings. 1745-1900: Lightning talks: 1745-1800: LT7 1805-1820: LT8 1825-1840: LT9 1850-1910: Prioritize and reschedule agenda 2130: Dinner Sunday 0900-1000: Wrap-up Saturday, lessons learned 14:00-14:45: Lunch 21:30: Dinner Monday 0945: Arrival in Oslo	What people say about our Geek Cruise Geek Cruise Press Buzz - Arkitekt nerdeferge i havn - Geek Cruise - the non-tech summary - From Geek Cruise Press Buzz Some twitter buzz on #geekcruise