Minnesota PHP User Group

May MNPHP Meetup

We have a guest speaker from Akiban this month!


Agenda:

Meet and Greet in the Cafeteria

The Nerdery provides us pizza and non-alcoholic drinks; this is a great time to network, discuss your latest projects and just hang out for a bit prior to all of the knowledge exchanging.

Message Queues and Distributed Job Processing : Geoffrey

PHP isn't multi threaded :( Fear not, there are still some very good ways to distribute your background work "web scale" across an unlimited number of servers with very little setup.

We can discuss RabbitMQ and an environment with Event Polling / Queued Jobs / Job Locking / Job Queue Strategies / Caveats to job queues

10.5 Minute Health Break

Get more caffeine or pizza, do what you need to.

Lightning discussion: MNPHP.org Open Source Project?

As a group, it would be cool for us to take on a project, probably Open Source, most likely using PHP, for the good of the world or community.

Bring your ideas and be prepared to 1) talk fast* and 2) take responsibilty**.

* No joke. Daniel will be timing this and will cut it off at 15 minutes

** We're all peers here. If you are wondering who in the group is going to take charge of implementing your really excellent idea, the answer is "you are".

Renormalize- When SQL Meets Documents : Ari Weil (Guest Speaker)

NoSQL document stores are generally considered at the opposing extreme to relational databases. Schema and SQL are perceived to be at the core of the problem. Akiban Server is an open source database that brings document stores and relational databases together. Developers get powerful document access and schema evolution capabilities alongside surprisingly powerful SQL. In this presentation Ori will cover the architecture and operational ideas that underline the Akiban Server.

Speaker Bio: Ari Weil is Director of Products for Akiban Technologies and covers markets, projects and product direction. Prior to Akiban, Ari worked as product manager for Quest Software's application and database performance management products. He has a Bachelor's from The Ohio State University.

Wrap-up

Akiban will be sponsoring an outing afterward and bring us some swag!  Details to come at the meetup!

First Time?

If you have not been to MNPHP before and you plan on coming; let me be the first to say welcome to our user group.  We generally meet the first Thursday of every month.  We certainly enjoy meeting people from the community.  Regardless if you are a beginner, intermediate, advanced or simply just coming to learn more about it; we are glad to have you.  All you need to bring is yourself, your personality and like most programmers you'll likely end up bringing a laptop.

 

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  • Daniel J. Post
    Daniel J. Post

    I've created a poll to help sort out what to do for July, August, and the future: http://www.mnphp.org/polls/5669...

    June 11

  • Doug Pham
    Doug Pham

    A lot of good information and networking. It's great to hear that PHP is growing.

    May 4, 2012

  • Ariel Weil
    Ariel Weil

    Big thanks to everyone who attended yesterday! It was a great group and a great space for presenting! I look forward to coming back for some hands on!

    May 4, 2012

  • Jesse G. Donat
    Jesse G. Donat

    I've only been to a couple but I thought this one was very interesting, probably the most interesting I've been to.

    May 4, 2012

  • Andrew P. Kandels
    Andrew P. Kandels

    Awesome meetup. Lots of information, interaction, and glad to see such an amazing turnout.

    May 4, 2012

  • Dave Pomeroy
    Dave Pomeroy

    I would have liked to see a bit more detailed info on the Message Queues, but that is minor. There was enough information presented that I can comfortably investigate further on my own. Thanks!

    May 4, 2012

  • Gareth Harcombe-Minson
    Gareth Harcombe-Minson

    Very good talk on Akiban's work.

    May 4, 2012

  • Daniel J. Post
    Daniel J. Post

    Best one yet. Both presenters were top notch, and our Open Source project discussion was fun and, maybe, productive.
    I hope to hear more about that in the Message Board.

    May 4, 2012

  • A former member
    A former member

    Geoffrey has an excellent RabbitMQ talk; very good to see how far it has come since I last evaluated it.
    Ari from Akiban was really awesome to listen to and the technology is really quite cool for certain use cases. Can't wait to start playing around with it.

    May 4, 2012

  • Adam Hoffarber
    Adam Hoffarber

    Great information; thanks again for Akiban coming in; Ari was a hoot. RateMyRecruiter.com...I like it! Good to see the Group really growing; I counted 53 people in the room last night!

    May 4, 2012

  • Mike Stowe
    Mike Stowe

    Great presentations! Very informative and very interesting topics :) Only complaint is that I think we tried to cram too much into this meetup (2 hours 40 minutes is a long time)

    May 4, 2012

  • Geoffrey
    Geoffrey

    Thanks for listening everyone. I enjoyed presenting for you all!

    May 3, 2012

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