Time: May 6, 2009 from 6pm to 8:30pm
Location: Gene B. Glick Achievement Center
Organized By: Ed Saipetch
Sponsors: BlueLock & Network Storage, Inc.
Event Description:
Survival Tactics: Into the Cloud
The second Indy Cloud Users meeting will feature IT professionals from ShareThis. The company built their business in the Amazon cloud. ShareThis employees attended the first meeting and there was lots of interest and questions surrounding the strategy, cost and security of the Amazon cloud and what it allowed them to do with their business. We're expecting much more in depth discussions this month.
ShareThis uses EC2 and other Amazon Web Services to host its entire operational infrastructure. In this presentation, Michael Babineau will talk about the business and technical decisions that led SHareThis into the cloud, then dive into use cases of how they leveraged AWS for:
About ShareThis:
ShareThis is the sharing network that makes sharing simple. ShareThis allows users to access their contacts and networks from anywhere online and share through email, IM, Facebook, Digg, Twitter, mobile SMS, and more, without ever leaving the current page. Publishers can use ShareThis to drive traffic, stimulate viral activity and track the sharing of online content. ShareThis is currently available on 100,000 publisher sites and handles 120 million view and share events per day.
The event will sponsored by Network Storage, Inc and BlueLock.
Food and drinks will be provided.
Location: Gene B. Glick Achievement Center
Organized By: Ed Saipetch
Sponsors: BlueLock & Network Storage, Inc.
Event Description:
Survival Tactics: Into the Cloud
The second Indy Cloud Users meeting will feature IT professionals from ShareThis. The company built their business in the Amazon cloud. ShareThis employees attended the first meeting and there was lots of interest and questions surrounding the strategy, cost and security of the Amazon cloud and what it allowed them to do with their business. We're expecting much more in depth discussions this month.
ShareThis uses EC2 and other Amazon Web Services to host its entire operational infrastructure. In this presentation, Michael Babineau will talk about the business and technical decisions that led SHareThis into the cloud, then dive into use cases of how they leveraged AWS for:
- Handling 12,000 HTTP requests per second with a customer-facing web application
- Processing 100MB of logs per minute with a queue-driven MapReduce cluster
- Launching 100-node MapReduce clusters on demand for batch processes Loading 350 million rows per day into a 6TB data warehouse
About ShareThis:
ShareThis is the sharing network that makes sharing simple. ShareThis allows users to access their contacts and networks from anywhere online and share through email, IM, Facebook, Digg, Twitter, mobile SMS, and more, without ever leaving the current page. Publishers can use ShareThis to drive traffic, stimulate viral activity and track the sharing of online content. ShareThis is currently available on 100,000 publisher sites and handles 120 million view and share events per day.
The event will sponsored by Network Storage, Inc and BlueLock.
Food and drinks will be provided.
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