Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group

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Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group is an entrepreneurial group of technologists that regularly conducts meetups, often with guest speakers and presentations. This channel provides access to the latest happenings in Cloud Computing from here in Silicon Valley.

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    19 episodes

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Episodes of Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group

    • Play Managing your ops the Google, Wikia, and Twitter way! - Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group on Blip Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group episodes on Blip

      Managing your ops the Google, Wikia, and Twitter...

      Managing web servers is easy. But then you grow, and you end up with hundreds, if not thousands, of them. You then have orders of magnitude more work on your hands, rare events become frequent, and all hell breaks loose. Come learn about managing large server farms from the ones in the trenches, including: John Adams, Operations Engineer at Twitter Jason Cook, Operations Engineer at Wikia

      • Release date
        Feb 23, 2012
      • Runtime
        01:39:39
    • Play Economics of Cloud Storage vs. Traditional Removable Media - Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group on Blip Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group episodes on Blip

      Economics of Cloud Storage vs. Traditional Remov...

      A lot has been debated on the economics of cloud storage vs. traditional removable media. To date, the debate has been mostly theoretical, however. Until now. Come listen de Chander Kant of Zmanda talk about their experience synthesized from thousands of customers, lessons learned from outages, and two years of production operations. Learn how in practice, storage can go either way based on your specific environment, and design considerations (i.e. your definition of backup sets: cloud storage...

      • Release date
        Feb 23, 2012
      • Runtime
        01:00:26
    • Play Q&A session on Google App Engine - Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group on Blip Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group episodes on Blip

      Q&A session on Google App Engine

      Come grill the Google AppEngine team on their roadmap, functionality, and choice of languages in this town hall session moderated by yours truly. Submit and vote on questions here: http://goo.gl/mod/UTs2 Sign in at the main lobby in Building 43.

      • Release date
        Feb 22, 2012
      • Runtime
        01:34:34
    • Play Cassandra from the Trenches: War Stories on Migrating to Cassandra at Netflix - Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group on Blip Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group episodes on Blip

      Cassandra from the Trenches: War Stories on Migr...

      Netflix grew up using the traditional enterprise model for scaling: monolithic web application on top of a monolithic database in a single datacenter, buying bigger boxes, stuffing more user data into session memory. It all worked great when Netflix had less than 1 million customers and rapidly growing. Then one day that model failed us, miserably. The single-point-of-failure bug hit us hard, and we were hobbled for days. Since then, Netflix has reinvented it's technology stack from top to bot...

      • Release date
        Feb 21, 2012
      • Runtime
        01:10:19
    • Play Keeping Movies Running Amid Thunderstorms! - Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group on Blip Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group episodes on Blip

      Keeping Movies Running Amid Thunderstorms!

      In 2008, Netflix began to see traction in its new mode of video delivery -- video streaming to devices in the home and in your pocket. As part of this transition, we are witnessing a shift in our traffic patterns and in the expectations of our customers regarding availability. Specifically, as we become indistinguishable from TV, we cannot afford service downtimes, planned or otherwise. To complicate matters further, our systems operate in AWS, where we have less control over networking, persi...

      • Release date
        Feb 15, 2012
      • Runtime
        01:27:46
    • Play Cloud Foundry Community updates - Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group on Blip Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group episodes on Blip

      Cloud Foundry Community updates

      CloudFoundry launched barely half a year ago to rave reviews. What isn't often mentioned is how large its ecosystem has become. Come in for an update on CloudFoundry, followed up by partner talks on the integrations they've done. + VMware gives a Cloud Foundry engineering update (by Patrick Chanezon & Ramnivas Laddad) + AppFog - Contributing PHP Support to CloudFoundry For over a year, AppFog has been a leader in PHP platform as a service withtheir product PHP Fog. In this session, we will lea...

      • Release date
        Feb 14, 2012
      • Runtime
        01:36:13
    • Play Cloud Foundry: Panel discussion - Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group on Blip Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group episodes on Blip

      Cloud Foundry: Panel discussion

      CloudFoundry developers and ecosystem members answer the audience's questions on VMware's open source PaaS project.

      • Release date
        Feb 13, 2012
      • Runtime
        21:18
    • Play Introduction to DynamoDB by Jeff Barr - Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group on Blip Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group episodes on Blip

      Introduction to DynamoDB by Jeff Barr

      Amazon is at it again with another awesome service release. Come listen to evangelist Jeff Barr talk about DynamoDB, a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications–the result of 15 years of learning at Amazon in the areas of large scale non-relational databases and cloud services.

      • Release date
        Feb 13, 2012
      • Runtime
        01:15:17
    • Play Building Cloud Tools for Netflix - Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group on Blip Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group episodes on Blip

      Building Cloud Tools for Netflix

      Netflix's Joe Sondow talks about the tooling his team has built for Netflix streaming on EC2.

      • Release date
        Nov 21, 2011
      • Runtime
        46:04
    • Play SaaS Success - A Basic Blueprint - Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group on Blip Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group episodes on Blip

      SaaS Success - A Basic Blueprint

      Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group Cloud Workshop at Microsoft in Mountain View: Talk Cloudy to Me! Speaker: Ken Rutsky While organizations spend a LOT of time understanding the technical transformation required to build a SaaS service, they fail to understand that this is just the anchorage of the transitional bridging they must do. In order to gain share and revenues they must deal with the remaining pieces of the bridge to SaaS success, which are their mindset, their organizational struct...

      • Release date
        May 23, 2011
      • Runtime
        32:31
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