In our last event we looked at the changing world of Data Scalability. For our 2.2 event we’re bringing in the experts to dive into the complex topics of Network & Infrastructure Scalability. In this Session we’ll look at the architecture of Web-scale infrastructures and investigate issues like Buy vs. Build, Cloud Technologies, Storage, and System Scalability. We’ll also give special attention to the State Of The Network in 2011 with issues like IPv4 exhaustion, more speed, more threats and the compromises between Performance, Reliability, Accessibility, Security and Cost to name a few.

REGISTER NOW and join us for a great discussion and a great networking event!

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Event Details

What: geekSessions 2.2: Network & Infrastructure Scalability
When: Tuesday, July 26th, 6:00pm-10:30pm

• 6:00pm – Registration and networking W/ free beer!

• 7:00pm – Speakers and Q&A

• 8:30pm – Networking and giveaways (more free beer)

Where: Madrone Studios Google Map: 1417 15th San Francisco, CA 94103
How: A limited number of tickets are now open to the public! Get them while they last.

About The Speakers

Cliff Moon
Co-Founder, Boundary

Cliff Moon is co-founder at Boundary where he uses both Scala and Erlang to build the most advanced network analysis platform in the world.  In a previous life, Cliff wrote Dynomite, one of the first open source dynamo clones.  He is a well regarded member of both the NoSQL and the Erlang communities, as well as a frequent organizer of Bay Area drinkups.

Mike Christian
Senior Director, Infrastructure Resiliency, Yahoo!

Mike has spent the last 8 years building highly available systems for Yahoo!, from global replication of petabyte data sets, to massively distributed CDN and traffic routing mechanisms dispersed to points throughout the world.  Prior to that, he spent 9 years building interactive television systems at Oracle and Thirdspace, wrestling bus sized parallel supercomputing systems and building fast lightweight DVR client applications.  He particularly enjoys solving unsolvable problems.

Allan Leinwand
Chief Technology Officer, Infrastructure Engineering, Zynga

Allan is currently Chief Technology Officer of Infrastructure Engineering at Zynga. In this role Allan is responsible for all aspects of technology infrastructure used in the delivery of Zynga’s social games including data centers, networking, compute, storage, content distribution and cloud computing.

Gleb Budman
CEO, Backblaze

Gleb co-founded Backblaze, an online backup service that provides unlimited storage for $5/month. The Backblaze team designed and open-sourced cloud storage hardware and built a 15+ petabyte cloud storage system without raising funding. Gleb has shared the process and how others can develop their own petabyte cloud storage. Previously, Gleb fought spam, worked to make search smarter, and built robots for nuclear facilities.

 Call For Speakers

If you are interested in speaking at this event contact us at gs22@geeksessions.com or @geeksessions

geekSessions 2.2 is sponsored by:

A10 Networks – A new generation Advanced Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and server load balancer, offering the industry’s best price/performance.

Juniper Networks – High Performance network infrastructure.

Force10 Networks - Force10networks.com

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Big Data, big challenge. In this session we’ll look at how companies are building high-performance systems manage, access, analyze, search, and share massive datasets that drive Web-Scale applications and other data intensive apps. We’ll compare relational vs. non-relational approaches and look at how these different paths impact the architecture of the system.

RDMS/SQL, NoSQL, Key Value stores, Wide Columns, Eventual Consistency, Massive Parallelism. We’re bringing together a great panel of speakers to discuss and share knowledge about the technology and techniques being used manage the ever increasing amount of data.

Join us for a great discussion and a great networking event!

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Event Info

What: geekSessions 2.1: Data Scalability –SQL or NoSQL?
When: Tuesday, May 3rd, 6:00pm-10pm

• 6:00pm – Networking, Snacks, Free Beer
• 7:00pm – Panel discussion and Q&A (bar closed)
• 8:30pm – More socializing

Where: MIGHTY in SOMA, Google Map: 119 Utah St., San Francisco
How: A limited number of tickets are now open to the public! Get them while they last.

About the Speakers

Jason Lucas
Scalability Architect, Tagged
[click here for Jason's slides]

Jason Lucas is the scalability architect for Tagged (www.tagged.com), the third largest social networking system in the world.  Jason has worked for Google on large-scale, distributed systems and for Microsoft on the Visual C++ compiler.  He also spent almost ten years working on artificial intelligence systems for treating HIV/AIDS in Africa.  These days Jason focuses on problems in the NoSQL space, creating planetary-scale data services that are reliable, fast, cheap, and, if at all possible, easy to use.

Danny Bickson
Researcher, Machine Learning Department CMU
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Danny Bickson is a postdoctoral researcher at the Machine Learning Department in Carnegie Mellon University, hosted by Prof. Carlos Guestrin (CMU) and Prof. Joseph Hellerstein (Berkeley). His most recent project, GraphLab, involves the design and implementation of a distributed programming abstraction that outperforms MapReduce, designed to support iterative and potentially asynchronous algorithms on big data. His research targets large scale distributed algorithms design and their deployment, spanning both the theoretical and applied aspects of large scale computing and applied machine learning.

Ted Dziuba
Senior Member of Technical Staff, eBay
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Ted Dziuba was the co-founder and lead engineer behind Milo.com, an online comparison shopping engine. Milo was acquired by eBay in December, 2010, and Ted is now Senior Member of Technical Staff for eBay’s Local division. Previously, he worked at Google on internal tools and Pressflip, a machine learning startup. Today, he works with both SQL and NoSQL systems, from hardware and operational aspects to application development.

Eric Bieschke
Playlists, Pandora
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Eric Bieschke runs playlist engineering for Pandora. As Pandora’s second employee he built small scale prototypes for many of Pandora’s systems and has grown them to service more than 80M users who’ve thumbed 8 billion songs while listening to billions of hours of music. Pandora has taken a hybrid SQL/NoSQL approach to data scaling with an architecture that leverages everything from Hadoop to Postgres to Redis and everything in between.

About the Moderator

Mike Panchenko
Infrastructure Engineer, SimpleGeo

Mike works at SimpleGeo, a company that provides a hosted spatial database. His primary responsibility is obsessing over the scalable storage infrastructure built on top of Apache Cassandra. He spends his time making data structures work in a distributed eventually consistent system, routing around failures, and making bad jokes about concurrency. Before SimpleGeo, Mike worked at Flickr, where data about some 6 billion photos is stored in one of the largest MySQL installs. SQL or not, he loves large storage architectures that can handle terabytes of data.

For the next Session, we’re bringing together a great group of people to discuss the ever evolving world of UI development. We have retro game emulators written in HTML 5, Flash interpreters written in Javascript, new tools like Unity, Mobile platforms, Multi-touch, and more. The field has never been more compelling or more complex.

Thanks to geekSessions alumnus Jonathan Abrams, we’re teaming up with Founders Den to host the this event.

Also thanks to our friends at Terrabit Systems who will be giving away a shiny new iPad at the event! Best door prize evar!!!

Event Info

What: geekSessions 2.0: The Art and Science of UI
When: Tuesday, February 22nd, 6:30pm-10:30pm

6:30pm – Registration, Networking, Beer
7:30pm – Panel discussion and Q&A (bar closed)
9:00pm – More beer, more networking

Where: Founders Den, Google Map: 665 3rd St, San Francisco

How: A limited number of tickets are now open to the public! Get them while they last.

About the Speakers

Chris Smoak
Developer, Smokescreen

Chris made people Apple iOS users cheer in 2010 when he released the open source “Smokescreen” beta. Smokescreen automatically converts Flash (SWF) to Javascript/HTML5. Chris will give us the rundown on Smokescreen from a technical perspective and talk about it’s Flash to HTML5 magic!

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Martin Kool
HTML5 Stunt Coordinator, Q42

Founder of Quplo. Wrote Sarien.net. Digital inventor. Technologist. Geek. Retro gamer. Father of 3. Husband of 1.

Martin created Sarien.net which is an HTML5 based retro game emulator and multiplayer social experience. Sarien.net enables anyone with an HTML5 capable device to play classic Sierra games like Space Quest (awesome on iPad) and Leisure Suit Larry. It also enables users to play these games in a multiplayer mode and interact with others in the game world.

David Kaneda
Creative Director, Sencha

David Kaneda leads the Sencha design team. He has over eight years of experience designing in a variety of fields, from architecture and fashion to education and software. Recently, David created Outpost, an iPhone app for Basecamp, and jQTouch, a Javascript framework for iPhone development. David also maintains WebKitBits, a site about the browser engine in Safari, Google Chrome, and the iPhone. David brings his wealth of design knowledge to Sencha, and is responsible for the look and feel of our websites and software.

Jeffery Kalmikoff
VP Product, SimpleGeo

Jeffrey spent nearly seven years as Chief Creative Officer of Threadless.com, focused on overall creative direction, design and product development/strategy. During his time there, they built the company from a profitable side-project into a multi-million dollar brand with an active, thriving online-community of over a million tee shirt and design enthusiasts. After Threadless, Jeffrey spent some time as Digg’s Director of Design, and is now working to make it less complicated for developers to add location features to their web and mobile applications as VP of Product at SimpleGeo.

Chelsea Howe
Director of Design, Social Chocolate

Chelsea Howe is currently Director of Design at Social Chocolate. Previously, she worked at Zynga as a Designer on FarmVille. Prior to her social gaming experience, she co-founded Proper Walrus to develop quirky, experimental indie games like Tipoli. She also worked at ActionXL designing and producing motion PC and mobile games, and at Cornell University as a game design instructor for the outreach portion of an NSF-funded research grant.

If you’re doing something great in the UI space and want to share, get in touch with us!

Join us on July 28th for Sessions Mixer 1.0. This will be a social mashup of our 3 events, geekSessions, bizSessions, and pixelSessions. No speakers, no Q&A. Just pure networking with a great mix of technologists, business folks, and designers.

Got something to show off? We’ll have a room with tables and booths devoted demos. Technology Demo, Design Display, or Business Pitch, If you have something to show let us know! Demo space is free but limited so apply here now.

Event Details

• Sessions Mixer 1.0 will be hosted at Atmosphere 3, (Google Map: 447 Broadway Street in San Francisco).

• Tuesday, July 28th, 5:30pm

• A social mashup: Technologists, Entraprenuers, Designers from geekSession, bizSessions, pixelSessions events!

• Networking & Demos

• Sponsor Giveaways!

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We’ve created a UserVoice forum for GS attendees to discuss the ideas and presentations from this event. Check it out here:

geekSessions 1.5 Forum

Our next Session will look at how startups are doing more with less. How smaller teams and are getting more done in less time with less money. From development to infrastructure –nature is demanding more efficiency across the board. We’ll look at how startups using modern frameworks, automation, sane capacity planning, and solid analytics to do more with less. Way more.

Event Info

What: geekSessions 1.5: Cheaper, Better, Faster, Stronger
When: Tuesday, February 24th, 6:00pm-10pm

6:00pm – Registration, Hosted Bar, and Dinner
7:00pm – Panel discussion and Q&A (bar closed)
8:30pm – Hosted bar, and networking

Where: MIGHTY in SOMA, Google Map: 119 Utah St., San Francisco

How: A limited number of tickets are now open to the public! Get them while they last.

Transportation: There’s a good amount of parking in front of and around the venue. Metered parking is free after 6pm as well. Also, the 22, 19 and 9 buses will get you within a block or two of Mighty.

About the Panelists

Justin Kan
Founder & President, Justin.tv

Justin Kan is a founder and President of Justin.tv, a live video website that supports millions of visitors a month. Previously to cofounding Justin.tv, Mr. Kan founded Kiko Software, the first AJAX-enabled web calendar, which was sold to Tucows in 2006. Mr. Kan holds a degree in Physics and Philosophy from Yale University.

Gary Swart
CEO, oDesk
Gary has 16 years experience in the software industry, and has held sales, operations and executive positions at startups and leading global enterprises. Currently Gary is the CEO of oDesk. oDesk is the leading marketplace for online workteams with the best business model for both buyers and providers. Prior to oDesk, Gary was COO at Intellibank, a provider of on-demand contact and document management solutions. Prior to Intellibank, Gary lead the SMB Division for IBM, Rational Software Products. In 2003, IBM acquired Rational Software, a $700M+ provider of software development tools, where Gary was Rational’s SMB leader, responsible for 180 direct reports, and a $200M+ quota.

Daniel Lieberman
Founder & CEO, Bitpusher
Daniel is founder and CEO of BitPusher, a web operations management company that helps customers reconcile their web 1.0-sized ambitions with web 2.0-sized budgets. He has been running Internet systems since the dial-up days, and specializes in making systems flexible, scalable and easy to manage. He enjoys working with startups and with large companies trying to act like startups.

Zachery Coelius
CEO, Triggit
Zachery Coelius is a founder and CEO of Triggit, a company that builds applications helping small web publishers extend the functionally of their sites. He has previously founded three other successful startups and is very proud that he has never had a real job.

Richard White
CEO, UserVoice
Richard White is a founder and CEO of UserVoice, a new kind of forum software that enables companies to harness the collective intelligence of their customers to generate and prioritize the ideas that turn good products into great products. He’s driven by a passion for building simple tools that improve productivity and outsourcing everything that’s not value adding (anyone know a good cook?). He’s sustained by Trader Joe’s rice bowls and a constant internet connection via his precious Sprint EVDO card.

About the Moderator

Jason HoffmanCTO, Joyent
Jason Hoffman is the CTO of Joyent and was a co-founder, with Dean Allen, of TextDrive. Jason has a BS and MS from UCLA, a PhD from UCSD and has backgrounds in cancer biology, bioinformatics, grid computing and collaborative applications.