Surge 2011 Keynote & Speaker List
Discussing Scalability Matters...
...because scalability matters. Surge is a chance to identify emerging trends and meet the architects behind established technologies. Learn from their mistakes and see how their victories can power your business forward.
Speaker
Rod Cope Chief Technology Officer, OpenLogic
Rod Cope is the CTO and Founder of OpenLogic, a provider of Open Source support and governance solutions for the enterprise. He has over 25 years of software development experience in a wide range of industries and technologies.
Prior to founding OpenLogic, Rod worked for General Electric, IBM, IBM Global Services, and Anthem before starting his own consulting company. As a consultant, he has architected solutions for Ericsson, Ford, Manugistics, Integral, Goodyear, and many other companies of all sizes.
Rod has spoken on various technical and business topics at JavaOne, OSCON, the No Fluff Just Stuff Java Symposium, the Open Source Business Conference, the Next Generation Data Center conference, and other venues around the United States and Europe. He holds both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Software Engineering from the University of Louisville.
Rod Cope's Talks
Cloudbursting with Amazon EC2 and SQS
Time: 2:30 - 3:30 p.m., September 30th
Location: Edinburgh Room
The concept of cloudbursting is very appealing. Who wouldn't want to maximize control and minimize costs by running a few servers in-house and borrowing public cloud resources when the odd demand spike occurs? This arrangement is particularly appealing if you already have a reason to run at least part of your system in-house, like Big Data that would cost a fortune to store in the public cloud. Unfortunately, the implementation is not so straightforward. You have to keep two asynchronous systems in lockstep across the public Internet while ensuring security, handling unpredictable latency, and optimizing for data locality. Come to this session to learn how this can actually work with Amazon EC2 and SQS. The implementation is based on Ruby on Rails and Resque/Redis, but the concepts are broadly applicable.
Program
Speakers
We are announcing the 2011 line up of speakers and sessions starting on May 19th. One each day, in no particular order.
