Vendor focus: Amazon CloudSearch

Join us on May 16 for a special vendor focus meetup held in conjunction with Amazon CloudSearch (http://aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch/). The event will take place at the Hand & Flower pub near Kensington Olympia, with drinks and light food starting from 5:30pm, and talks beginning at 6:30pm. The agenda for the evening will be:

CloudSearch Technical Summary by Jon Handler, Solution Architect at Amazon CloudSearch — This talk will cover how to design, build, and deploy a cloud-based search solution, and tune it for best results. You will also learn about the CloudSearch architecture and how it fits with other AWS services. User Talk — NakedWines.com Better Search For Wikipedia Using CloudSearch - Iain Fletcher, VP of Marketing at Search Technologies Building a Search UI for CloudSearch by Stefan Olafsson, Cofounder of Twigkit — Stefan will demonstrate how to rapidly build a full-featured search application leveraging CloudSearch and DynamoDB (AWS's NoSQL database service), and deploy it on Elastic Beanstalk.