This is a joint event with the DC/Northern Virginia Java Users Group - http://www.meetup.com/dc-jug/
The topic for March's meeting will be: "Hacking Infinispan: The new open source data grid meets NoSQL".
This meeting is open to all individuals interested in learning more about JBoss technology. Free parking is available.
In order to get an accurate headcount for refreshments, RSVPs are strongly encouraged. Please visit our meetup site, http://www.meetup.com/dc-jbug for RSVPs and other related group information.
Agenda
- Welcome & Refreshments (7:00 pm - 7:30 pm)
- Announcements & Introductions
- Hacking Infinispan: The new open source data grid meets NoSQL (7:30 pm - 9:00 pm)
- Manik Surtani, Core R&D Engineer, JBoss by Red Hat
Infinispan is a highly scalable open source data grid platform, and has originally been used to alleviate stress on RDBMSs. Increasingly, it is also used as a NoSQL data store, especially on ephemeral cloud nodes where reliability of disk is not guaranteed. This talk, by Infinispan founder and project lead Manik Surtani, takes the audience through the raisons d'etre of both data grids and NoSQL, and analyses where the two intersect. After this introduction to scalable storage, Surtani introduces Infinispan, and takes the audience on a tour of Infinispan's public APIs, detailing how to configure and interact with Infinispan, as well as through best practices and recipes.
Location
Near Infinity Corporation
1881 Campus Commons Drive #203
Reston, VA 20191
About the Speaker
Manik Surtani is a core R&D engineer at JBoss, a division of Red Hat. He is the specification lead for JSR-347 - Data Grids for the Java Project. He also is the founder of the Infinispan project, which he currently leads, and leads the JBoss Cache project.
His interests lie in cloud and distributed computing, autonomous systems and highly available computing. He has a background in artificial intelligence and neural networks, a field he left behind when he moved from academic circles to the commercial world. Since then, he's been working with Java-related technologies, first for a startup focusing on knowledge management and information exchange, and later for a large London-based consultancy as a tech lead focused on e-commerce applications on large Java EE and peer-to-peer technology.
Surtani is a strong proponent of open source development methodologies, ethos, and collaborative processes, and has been involved in open source since his first forays into computing.
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