High performance infrastructure (October)

Description: Achieving high performance is partly to do with your code but it still really depends on how you deploy your infrastructure.
Dedicated vs cloud? In memory vs on disk? Spindal vs SSD? Multi data centre deployments?

This talk will consider all the infrastructure requirements of a successful high performance infrastructure with hints and tips that can be applied to setup. It will include things like OS tweaks, disk benchmarks, replication, monitoring and backups plus considerations for the overall architecture.

Bio: David Mytton is the founder of Server Density, a SaaS tool which helps you provision and monitor your infrastructure. Based in the UK, David has been programming in Python and PHP for over 10 years, was one of the earliest production MongoDB users (founding the London MongoDB User Group), co-founded the Open Rights Group and can often be found cycling in London or drinking tea in Japan.

NCC Group Performance (http://nccgroup.com/en/our-services/website-performance-software-testing/) (formerly Site Confidence) have stepped up to supply the food and drink for Tuesday! :-)

They have vacancies for LAMP stack Sysadmins and Developers so if you want to know more talk to Simon Austin on Tuesday or email him at Simon.Austin@NCCGroup.com

Agenda

1830 - register and pre-presentation drinks

1900 - 2000 - Presentation & QA

2000 - ~2130 - snacks, drinks, conversation