[socal-piggies] Next meeting: Wed. Feb 22 @ spire.io offices

[Grig Gheorghiu]

A quick update about the agenda. Turns out we have no less than 3 presentations:

1) Craig Kairsterns from Heroku. Here's the abstract of his talk:

"In recent years there's been rapid growth in application development
area. This is in large part due to trends such as better tools to
manage code and dependencies, external services to aid you, and due to
the elasticity of the cloud. At Heroku we have a fortunate experience
to interact with thousands of application developers and see their
patterns and trends as well as help influence these. We will walk
through some of the recent trends and emerging trends for the future
in application development. These trends will make it even easier to
scale up without significant overhead, further enable continuous
deployment, and improve the ease to onboard other developers into a
development team. Many of these current and emerging best practices
will be highlighted on Heroku with live demos, but broadly apply
outside the Heroku platform."

2) Joshua Timberman from Opscode (makers of Chef):

Title: Application Deployment is System State

Abstract:

Infrastructure as code is a philosophy of managing systems through
declarative, idempotent resources whereby each node takes care of
itself in order to do its job. It encompasses configuration management
and system integration, and aims to reduce the friction of managing
scalable distributed systems that run the business. At Opscode, we
believe in making application deployment a part of the whole system
policy maintained by our configuration management system, Chef. This
talk will discuss some of the basics of Chef and discuss some of the
strategies for managing application deployment as part of system state
for an app server to fulfill its job per policy.

3) Daniel Stewart

Title:  Where there's where

Textual analysis of user generated input using the Google Places API.

Hope to see you there!

Grig


On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Grig Gheorghiu
<grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> Thanks to Danny Greenfeld, we are able to hold our meeting in
> February. Danny invited over Craig Kairsterns and Kenneth Reitz from
> Heroku, part of the Python team there.
>
> Carlo Flores from spire.io offered to host the meeting at their
> offices at 7257 Beverly Blvd #210, Los Angeles, CA 90036 (it's on
> Beverly Blvd, just west of La Brea, between Alta Vista and
> Poinsettia.)
>
> The meeting will be on Wednesday Feb 22 at 7 PM.
>
> We have 1 presenter so far, Craig Kairsterns from Heroku. Here's the
> abstract of his talk:
>
> "In recent years there's been rapid growth in application development
> area. This is in large part due to trends such as better tools to
> manage code and dependencies, external services to aid you, and due to
> the elasticity of the cloud. At Heroku we have a fortunate experience
> to interact with thousands of application developers and see their
> patterns and trends as well as help influence these. We will walk
> through some of the recent trends and emerging trends for the future
> in application development. These trends will make it even easier to
> scale up without significant overhead, further enable continuous
> deployment, and improve the ease to onboard other developers into a
> development team. Many of these current and emerging best practices
> will be highlighted on Heroku with live demos, but broadly apply
> outside the Heroku platform."
>
> We are working on getting a second presenter.
>
> Evite will sponsor the food and drinks.
>
> Parking (from Carlo): "parking semi-tricky.  There's plenty of street
> parking on Beverly and south of Oakwood (one block away).  There's
> some gentleman running a parking lot across the street, though often
> times he's not there.  Pretty typical LA parking."
>
> I need to know how many people are going so we can buy appropriate
> amounts of food, so please reply to me personally if you intend to go.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Grig