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Training Title: | Hands-on Cassandra |
Training Length: | 3 hour |
Speaker: | Eric Evans |
Speaker contact info: | eevans at rackspace dot com |
Training Abstract: | Moore's Law has run its course, yet despite the growing demands placed on databases, traditional solutions offer little alternative to vertical scaling. Come learn step-by-step how to use Apache Cassandra to turn a cluster of inexpensive commodity servers into a massively scalable distributed datastore. |
Speaker bio: | Eric Evans is a Debian Developer and Apache Cassandra committer. He lives in San Antonio Texas where he works on distributed systems for The Rackspace Cloud. |
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Training Title: | Enterprise Messaging With ActiveMQ and Spring |
Training Length: | 2 Days |
Speaker: | Bruce Snyder |
Speaker contact info: | bruce.snyder@gmail.com |
Training Abstract: | If its fulfillment center is burning down, can Amazon still accept customer orders? The answer is yes. In today's fast-paced, highly competitive business world, it is essential for business applications to continue working under all circumstances. Yet designing such applications is not a well-documented task. By walking through some of the major steps in building such an application, the path to an event-driven application that can withstand failures of individual services will unfold for students and become clearer. This two-day course will lead students through the steps of building an asynchronous, event-driven business application using JMS messaging. By building this application, students will gain hands-on experience with JMS, ActiveMQ and Spring. |
Speaker bio: | Bruce Snyder is a veteran of enterprise software development and a recognized leader in open source software. Bruce has experience in a wide range of technologies including Java EE, Enterprise Messaging and Service Oriented Integration. In addition to his role as a principal with Organic Element, Bruce is also an Apache Member, a co-founder of Apache Geronimo and a developer for Apache ActiveMQ, Apache Camel, Apache ServiceMix. Bruce serves as a member of various JCP expert groups, is the co-author of Professional Apache Geronimo, Beginning Spring Framework 2 both from Wrox Press and is currently co-authoring Apache ActiveMQ In Action for Manning Publications. Bruce lives in beautiful Boulder, Colorado with his family. |
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Training Title: | Solr Application Development Workshop |
Training Length: | 2 Days |
Speaker: | Erik Hatcher |
Speaker contact info: | ehatcher@a.o |
Training Abstract: | This hands on workshop is targeted at developers who want to build applications with Solr, the Lucene search server. You will learn how to set up and use Solr to index and search, how to analyze and solve common problems, and how to use optional Solr modules such as facets, spell check, and highlighting. New material will cover Solr 1.4. The workshop covers: Principals of search application development and design, Common search use cases and their application, How to make content searchable, Basics and best practices for indexing and searching using Solr, How to integrate Solr into your solutions, Techniques to analyze and resolve common search problems, How to leverage Solr's optional modules including spell checking, highlighting, Data Import Handler, Rich document extraction and other popular capabilities, Advanced topics in designing Solr apps and running a site, Solr operations and deployment tools and strategies, How to customize and extend Solr |
Speaker bio: | Erik Hatcher has delivered Solr training at the last several ApacheCon's. He's a member of Lucid Imagination's technical staff, a company dedicated to supporting Lucene technologies. Erik is an original co-author of the popular book "Lucene in Action", and a Lucene/Solr developer, committer, and member of the Lucene PMC. |
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