Open Sourced GemFire In-Memory Distributed Database Architecture Talk

In honor of ApacheCon in Austin, Pivotal Software is sponsoring a special meetup event for ApacheCon attendees and local Austin area techies that love open source software.

Open Sourced GemFire In-Memory Distributed Database -- what potential contributors need to know

Schedule:
6:30pm to 7:00pm Food/Drink/Mingle
7:00pm to 8:30pm Talk
8:30pm to 9:00pm Q&A
9:00pm to 9:30pm More Mingling

The technology behind the "GemFire" in-memory data grid has a storied journey, acquiring its first customers in 2004 as part of GemStone, acquired by VMware, spun out to Pivotal Software, and is now proposed to become an incubated project of the Apache Software Foundation.

Companies using GemFire have deployed it in some of the most mission critical time sensitive applications in their enterprises, making sure tickets are purchased in a timely fashion, hotel rooms are booked, financial trades are made, and credit card transactions are cleared.

Come to this meet up to learn about becoming a contributor to this powerful and fascinating technology:

• A brief history of GemFire
• Architecture and use cases
• Why we are taking GemFire Open Source
• Design philosophy and principles
• Code walk-through
• How to contribute
• Ideas for next enhancements

About the Speakers:

Sudhir Menon is one of the key architects for GemFire & SQLFire and Head of Products for all Real Time and Big Data products at Pivotal.

Jags Ramnarayan is the Chief Architect for “fast data” products(GemFire) at Pivotal and serves in the extended leadership team of the company.

Dan Smith has been writing code ever since he typed in some BASIC from the back of a magazine in elementary school. For the last 10 years Dan has been working in distributed systems development. He's currently a Staff Engineer at Pivotal working on GemFire.