[LA.pm] LA.pm Tech Talk: 03-20-07: Ask Bjørn Hansen: Real World Web Scalability

[Todd Cranston-Cuebas]

Our booth at the Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE 5X <http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale5x/> ) was a big hit! We were overrun with people interested in knowing more about perl in general and the la.pm specifically. It's our hope that at the next meeting will have a number of new faces in the crowd. I have to take this time to also thank the volunteers who sat in the booth all weekend long and a special thanks to Juan Natera who had such an excellent demo prepared and working flawlessly. The demo really helped to drive home the real truth that "perl is NOT slow!" 

That being said, it's time for the LA.pm to announce the topic of our next tech talk. 


Real World Web Scalability


Learn how to build your overall architecture to beat the pants off yesterday's
micro-optimizations


by Ask Bjørn Hansen


*	Horizontal scaling: the geek girl next door 
*	Caching here, there and everywhere 
*	MySQL configuration 
*	Table types and tweaks 
*	Replication strategies 
*	When to use what where 
*	How to avoid scaling vertically on the backend 
*	Partition your data the right way when your database can't keep up 
*	The when, where, and what about session data 
*	Offload light jobs to light processes 
*	Manage your resources to get the most out of your hardware 
*	Make a job queue to gracefully deal with big traffic peaks 
*	Tips for dealing with logging 


A little about our speaker...


Ask Bjørn Hansen is a software developer and consultant focused on Perl, Apache, Linux, MySQL and other open source technologies. He has worked with Perl for more than eight years, building large and small systems in Perl, including mod_perl systems serving thousands of requests per second. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and has been building and managing much of the perl.org community infrastructure since 1999.

Date / Time :
  Tuesday, March 20, 20097; 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m

Location:
Ticketmaster Corporate Headquarters
8800 W. Sunset Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069

Practical information you should know....

Please arrive a few minutes early if you can. I realize that traffic can be difficult in LA but we're going to start as close to 7:00 p.m. as possible. Ticketmaster is located on the southeast corner of Sunset Blvd. and Palm Avenue. At night, it is hard to see the 8800 number on our red brick building so be careful you don't drive past. Parking is off of Palm Avenue. Please see the map link below for our location. When you arrive, please pull into our parking structure below our building unless you like getting parking tickets ;)  Please proceed to the guard's desk and a Ticketmaster representative take you the movie theater for this talk.. 

http://www.google.com/maps?f=q <http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=8800+w.+sunset+blvd.+west+hollywood,+ca&ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=34.092934,-118.380542&spn=0.025482,0.054245> &hl=en&q=8800+w.+sunset+blvd.+west+hollywood,+ca&ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=34.092934,-118.380542&spn=0.025482,0.054245

RSVP Please

Finally, if you plan to attend, please RSVP to tcc at ticketmaster.com and put "la.pm TechTalk" in the subject line. It is very helpful for us to know how many people will arrive so we can make the necessary plans.

If you have any other questions, you can contact me directly.

Todd Cranston-Cuebas
310-360-2436
 <mailto:tcc at ticketmaster.com> tcc at ticketmaster.com

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