Treffen der SIG JBOSS

Referent: Manik Surtani

In this talk, Infinispan founder and JBoss Cache project lead Manik Surtani introduces the role of data grids in today"s cloud-computing environment. The extreme scalability offered by data grids are powering the greatest and most high-profile of today"s applications.

In his talk Surtani covers Infinispan, the new open source data grid platform, and it"s motivations and evolution as a project. Distributed data structures will be discussed in-depth, including strategies of managing and deploying data grids on cloud services such as Amazon AWS by making use of powerful toolkits such as JClouds.

Über den Referenten

Manik Surtani is a core R&D engineer at JBoss, a division of Red Hat, and project lead on Infinispan and JBoss Cache. 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.

Nach dem Vortrag wird es die Möglichkeit geben, sich mit anderen Teilnehmern über alle möglichen Themen (bezüglich JBoss oder auch ganz ohne Bezug dazu) in einer Gaststätte oder einem Biergarten zu unterhalten.
 
Der Eintritt zu dieser Veranstaltung in den Räumen von Red Hat Stuttgart, Hauptstätter Str. 58, 70178 Stuttgart ist kostenfrei. Die SIG JBoss bittet um Anmeldung an Tobias Frech (tf@jugs.org).
 
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