Didn’t get a ticket in time? No problem! We’re broadcasting it to you live with help from our friends over at Justin.tv. The event starts at 6pm PST and the speakers go on at 6:30pm PST. Their presentation slides are posted below so you can follow along at home too. Thanks for looking and be sure to sign up for our mailing list to find out about the next event!

Speaker Presentations

Cal Henderson (PDF)
Director of Engineering, Flickr

Lucas Nealan (PDF)
Lead Engineer, Facebook

Sara Golemon (PPT)
Senior Engineer, Yahoo! Inc.

Andrei Zmievski (PDF)
Chief Architect, Outspark

* For full speaker bios, check out the original event posting.

Thanks to all of our speakers, sponsors, and attendees. We’re looking forward to a great event!

It’s a new year and that means more geekSessions! Join us on Tuesday, January 15 at the City Club in SF for an exciting event covering PHP scalability, prerformance, and the future. We are going to have a great panel discussion, catered reception, and an open bar.

Event Info

What: geekSessions 1.3: PHP Scalability, Performance, and the Future
When: Tuesday, January 15th, 6:00pm-9:00pm

6:00pm - Registration, open bar, and appetizers
6:30pm - Panel discussion and Q&A (bar closed)
8:00pm - Open Bar, dinner, and networking

Where: The City Club of SF, Google Map: 155 Sansome, 10th Floor

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

Transportation: Parking can be a bit tricky in the financial district at this time, so it’s highly recommended you take public transportation. If you must drive, your best bet may be to park in the parking structure for the Metreon over on 4th and Mission and walk to the event.

Submit a Question for the Panel

Got something you’re itching to ask? Use our form to submit a question for the panel. Selected questions will be asked by the moderator, Terry Chay, Software Architect at Tagged.

We’re excited about Macworld and we’re even more excited about tonight’s event. It’s another sold out geekSessions and we can’t wait to see what our speakers have to present.

Didn’t get a ticket in time? No problem! We’re broadcasting it to you live with help from our friends over at Justin.tv. The event starts at 6pm PST and the speakers go on at 6:30pm PST. Their presentation slides are posted below so you can follow along at home too. Thanks for looking and be sure to sign up for our mailing list to find out about the next event!

Speaker Presentations

Cal Henderson (pending)
Director of Engineering, Flickr

Lucas Nealan (PDF)
Lead Engineer, Facebook

Sara Golemon (PPT)
Senior Engineer, Yahoo! Inc.

Andrei Zmievski (PDF)
Chief Architect, Outspark

About the Panelists

Sara Golemon
Sr. Engineer, Yahoo! Inc.
Sara Golemon is an engineer for Yahoo! Web Search and part-time OSS code-monkey. She’s a PHP runtime and Zend engine developer who literally wrote the book on “Extending and Embedding PHP”. Sara’s been featured several times on podcasts such as php|architect’s Pro::PHP, and the Zend developer zone PHP-Abstract. As a hobbyist in the field of cyrptography, she’s the originator behind the libssh2 C library and several PHP focused extensions centered around symmetric, asymmetric, and message digest algorithms.

Cal Henderson
Director of Engineering, Flickr
Originally from London, England, Cal Henderson currently works at Yahoo! Inc, as the Director of Engineering for Flickr, in San Francisco, California. He’s been working on Flickr from the day it started development (on his laptop) to the present day. In 2006, he wrote the book Building Scalable Websites for O’Reilly Media. Before Flickr, he was the technical director of Special Web Projects at emap, a UK media company. By night he works for a whole slew of web sites and communitites, including the creative community B3TA and his personal site, iamcal. (Photo by Scott Beale)

Lucas Nealan
Lead Engineer, Facebook
Lucas is a web developer with over 10 years experience. He has worked with PHP since 2000 and is currently a Lead Engineer at Facebook.com, one of the largest PHP infrastructures in the world. Lucas has been working at Facebook for the last two and a half years on PHP performance and scalability.

Andrei Zmievski
Chief Architect, Outspark Inc.
Andrei Zmievski is Chief Architect at Outspark Inc, where he is working on a technology platform for building an online playground with free video games and engaging communities. In the past he had worked on internal tools at Yahoo! Inc., specializing in i18n and infrastructure software, such as PHP and Apache. He is also a core PHP developer, leader of the PHP-GTK project, and a co-author of “PHP Developer’s Cookbook” and Smarty templating system. His current focus is the native Unicode support in PHP.

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1. The Panel Discussion (45 minutes)
2. The Q&A (38 minutes)
3. The Giveaways (9 minutes)

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We’re looking forward to a great event!

If you can’t make the event in person, check back later this week and we’ll should have presentations and podcasts of the event posted.

The latest geekSessions event info is here, and it’s going to be better than ever! Join us on Tuesday, October 2 at the City Club in SF for a great panel discussion, catered reception, and open bar.

For this session, we’re diving into database design—both from the perspective of traditional best practices as well as new technologies and techniques on accelerating the performance and increasing the availability and integrity of data in high-demand environments.

We’ll tackle a broad range of data related issues such as when to normalize versus de-normalize, when to use an RDBMS versus an alternative, pros and cons of various platforms, and pros and cons of building more sophisticated data management into the application layer.

Event Info

What: geekSessions 1.2: Designing Beyond the Database
When: Tuesday, October 2nd, 6:00pm-9:00pm

6:00pm - Registration, open bar, and appetizers
6:30pm - Panel discussion and Q&A (bar closed)
8:00pm - Open Bar, dinner, and networking

Where: The City Club of SF, Google Map: 155 Sansome, 10th Floor

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

Transportation: Parking can be a bit tricky in the financial district at this time, so it’s highly recommended you take public transportation. If you must drive, your best bet may be to park in the parking structure for the Metreon over on 4th and Mission and walk to the event.

3 hours isn’t enough, you say? Ticketholders will be emailed details of the geekSessions after-party!

Submit a Question for the Panel

Got something you’re itching to ask? Use our form to submit a question for the panel. Selected questions will be asked by the moderator.

About the Panelists

Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Lead, Sun Microsystems
Josh Berkus is primarily known as one of the Core Team of the world-spanning, open source database project, PostgreSQL. He has been involved with various open source projects since 1998—including OpenOffice.org, LedgerSMB, Bricolage, and OpenBRR. He currently sits on the board of Software in the Public Interest, Inc. Sun Microsystems employs Josh in its Database Technology Group as the strategic lead for Sun’s PostgreSQL for Solaris product offering.

Arnold Goldberg
Senior Director of Systems Engineering, eBay
Originally involved in the conversion of the site to Java, Arnold’s group is now involved in many parts of the site’s infrastructure. These areas include eBay’s Appserver usage, Presentation Technologies being used, Data Access Layer frameworks, Build and Release Systems, Application Frameworks, and many other aspects of running the site and developing eBay’s Java-based products. He’s been at eBay for more then 6 years.

Paul Querna
Senior Software Engineer, Bloglines
Paul Querna is employed as a Senior Software Engineer at Bloglines, where he works on the Bloglines distributed file system, custom BerkeleyDB based databases, and other backend systems. He is involved with many open source projects and is a member of the Apache Software Foundation. When he can find spare time, he likes to hack on the Apache HTTP Server and the Apache Portable Runtime projects.

Chad Walters
Search Architect and Director of Search Engineering, Powerset
Chad Walters is the Search Architect and Director of Search Engineering for Powerset, where he focuses on taking Powerset’s natural language search technology to web-scale. Before joining Powerset, Mr. Walters served as Websearch Architect for Yahoo!. In this role, he provided technical leadership spanning the Websearch organization with an emphasis on runtime query serving infrastructure. Mr. Walters also has expertise in online storage, virtual machines, and virtual memory. Prior to Yahoo!, Mr. Walters held leadership positions at i-drive.com/Anuvio Technologies and Connectix Corporation. He holds a B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University.

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This is why we’re thrilled to join forces with She’s Geeky to help promote and encourage women in technology. To all the geekSessions ladies out there, you should definitely check out The She’s Geeky (un)Conference, happening October 22-23 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Tickets are $125 and you can register on the website.

If you would like to help out, She’s Geeky is still accepting sponsorship so email them at shesgeeky at gmail dot com for more information.

See below for the audio, video, and slide presentations for July’s geekSessions 1.1

Audio

Video
Coming soon.

Slide Presentations (in order of presentation)

• -Sandy Jen, Founder of Meebo
• -Nick Heyman, VP of Ops, VideoEgg
• -Ron Gorodetzky, Sr. SysAdmin, Digg
• -Jonathan Abrams, Founder, Friendster and Socializr
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If you can’t make it in person you can still Submit a question for the panel and then watch the podcasts.

As always, thanks to everyone for helping us get the word out. We’re looking forward to a great event!

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