SF Ruby on Rails - Features + Performance + Scaling | OAuth 2.0

We have two speakers lined up for Wed, July 27th.

Flowtown on things authentication and OAuth 2.0 Pivotal on getting your app to run fast and scale awesomely

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Talk 1: Authentication | OAuth 2.0

Assaf Arkin, Flowtown

You're building an API and the question comes up, how to let client applications authenticate against it? Giving username/password to 3rd party client applications is a security anti-pattern. You don't want to do that. API keys are better, but confusing for the average user. So we're going to look at solving that with OAuth 2.0.

If you used Facebook Connect to allow a non-Facebook application restricted access to your Facebook account, you've used OAuth 2.0. Let's talk about what OAuth 2.0 is, how it works, and how to add support to your application/API. We'll cover authentication flows for Web apps, mobile, desktop and even command-line tools, and talk about access control patterns that are based, not on users and roles, but client applications and requested access scopes.

This talk will cover rack-oauth2-server, an open source OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server module:

https://github.com/flowtown/rack-oauth2-server

About Assaf Arkin Assaf Arkin (http://labnotes.org/) is master of Just Ship It at Flowtown (http://flowtown.com/). When he's not fixing bugs, he's likely coding up new bugs. Projects he's working on include Timely.is (http://Timely.is/), Zombie.js (http://zombie.labnotes.org/), Vanity (http://vanity.labnotes.org/) and fixing his bicycle chain. He wrote two books, which counts for something. He uses a different password for each site.

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Talk 2: Features + Performance + Scaling -- When and How

David Stevenson, Pivotal Labs

Pivotal Labs (http://pivotallabs.com/) sets the bar when it comes to rapid development of high-performance high-scale applications. David Stevenson, agile engineer at Pivotal, will come share secrets on their development process -- how they go from minimum viable product to high traffic site, where they focus and when.

In particular, the talk will provide hands-on pointers on how to make your Rails app run fast and scale. Not just theory, but specific tools and concrete steps. (Organizer Note: should be a great adjunct to last month's meeting.)

About David Stevenson

David Stevenson is a long-time Rails expert. At Pivotal Labs and prior to that at ELC, he has developed, architected, and sometimes managed several large rails projects for large companies. He was also a co-founder of Shoperion which become RightCart and was sold to Buy.com in 2007.

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Location:

Storek Building
149 9th Street , San Francisco, CA

The Storek Building is a business incubator with some of the hottest tech startups in the game either right down the hall (RightSignature, FontShop) or down the block (Twitter, Heroku). 35,000 sq ft of unparalleled facility amenities and technie-fun right in the heart of SoMa.

www.storekbuilding.com @storekbuildling

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Pizza and Refreshments:

New Relic

New Relic, Inc. is the all-in-one web application performance management provider for the cloud and the datacenter.

Its SaaS solution, which combines real user monitoring, application monitoring, and availability monitoring in a single solution built from the ground up, changes the way developers and operations teams manage web application performance in real-time.

More than 10,000 organizations use New Relic to optimize over 6 billion transactions in production each day.

http://www.newrelic.com
@newrelic