Didn’t get to make it to our last geekSessions event on “Designing Beyond the Database?” Check out the archived episodes on Justin.tv!
Hey check this out! We’re teaming up with the guys at Justin.tv to bring you geekSessions live! Tune in at 6:30PM PST to hear the panel discussion. Later, we’ll post the archived episode too.
Thanks to everyone supporting geekSessions, especially our great speakers and our sponsors, geekSessions is once again SOLD OUT!
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.
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!
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.
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.
Sponsored By
“No, this is not my boyfriend’s computer,” reads the image at the top of the She’s Geeky website—a funny but all too true quote about the still male-dominated tech industry.
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.
Good news! For everyone that missed out on our July event, we’ve posted the podcasts and slide presentations on the event. Thanks to everyone who came and congratulations to the winners of the Arcscale skateboards and the B-hive iPhone!
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)
