Re: Cloud Computing\Concurrency Conference: Toby DiPasquale is Speaking

[AOK <aok@chariotsolutions.com>]

If you have not looked at the Cloud Conference website -- or if you
have not looked at it lately, consider taking a(nother) look. The
roster is now complete:
www.cloudconeast.com

Since I announced the conference the abstract for Jeff Polakaw's talk
"Haskell in the Corporate Environment" has been added: An increasing
number of commercial enterprises are starting to look seriously at
Haskell, a higher-order, strongly typed, pure functional programming
language. This talk motivates the increased industrial attention to
Haskell by focussing on the advantages which Haskell brings to general
programming tasks. I will talk about my experience using Haskell to
design and implement the software infrastructure for a small trading
group at Deutsche Bank. Most of the applications I write deal with
such quotidian tasks as acquiring data from external sources, linking
up related information from different sources, searching for specific
patterns and making data available through a webserver. In addition to
outlining my overall system architecture and highlighting some novel
aspects of my implementation, I will discuss the various pros and
cons, technical and otherwise, of using Haskell in a corporate
environment.

We've also added a talk by Hive developer Prasad Chakka.

The conference is set for Friday, October 17 on the Penn State Great
Valley Campus in Malvern, PA. For more information and to register:
www.cloudconeast.com

AOK

On Sep 19, 12:31 pm, AOK <a...@chariotsolutions.com> wrote:
> Most of you don't know me. I'm a consultant specializing in Ruby
> development. I have been on this list for some time, but have not yet
> made it to any talks. I hope to be able to do something about that
> before too long.
>
> I'm writing because, based on the topics members of this group have
> expressed interest in, I think you would want to know about the Cloud
> Computing\Concurrency Conference that Chariot Solutions (my employer)
> is sponsoring next month. It's set for Friday, October 17, just
> outside of Philadelphia, at the Penn State Great Valley Campus in
> Malvern.
>
> Toby DiPasquale, the founder of this group, will be speaking about
> Hadoop and participating in a panel discussion about using EC2 and S3
> in production.
>
> Although it's not yet listed on the conference website, Jeff Polakow
> will be drawing on his experience with using Haskell in a business
> setting (Deutsche
> Bank) for his presentation.
>
> For more information and to register:www.cloudconeast.com
>
> Below my signature is a partial list of speakers and topics.
>
> Andrea
>
> Topics and speakers include:
>
> Amazon Web Services (Jeff Barr: Senior Evangelist, Amazon Web
> Services)
>
> Going Threadless (MenTaLguY: wrote fastthread, active JRuby and
> Rubinius contributor, co-founded Inkscape and lib2geom projects)
>
> Google Spreadsheet as a Platform (Jonathan Rochelle: Group Product
> Manager, Google)
>
> Horizontal Scaling with HiveDB (Britt Crawford/Justin McCarthy: co-
> founders of HiveDB and colleagues at cafepress.com)
>
> Panel Discussion: Real World Cloud Computing Experiences (Ken Rimple:
> Software Architect, Chariot Solutions; Chris Cera: CTO, Vuzit; Toby
> DiPasquale: Chief Architect, CubeTree)
>
> Be the Cloud (Ezra Zygmuntowicz: creator of Merb, co-founder of Engine
> Yard)
>
> Building Scalable Web Applications with Google App Engine (Joe
> Gregorio: Developer Advocate, Google)
>
> Enter the Elephant: Hadoop (Toby DiPasquale: Chief Architect,
> CubeTree)
>
> Developing and Deploying Java Applications on the Amazon Elastic
> Compute Cloud (Chris Richardson: author of POJOs in Action)