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Tech Talk: Building Killer Web Apps

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Our final tech talk for 2011 is quickly approaching. Dave King, a software engineer at Rackspace, will be speaking on Building Killer WebApps. He has been working most recently on building Rackspace’s next generation control panel as well as improving the existing cloud control panel. In this talk, he will be sharing some of his experiences as well as best practices in the industry.

Why is this an important topic? Web applications are omnipresent in how we interact with the world. In contrast to native applications (which run on one device), web applications run on multiple devices, allowing consumers to access their data from anywhere. For this presentation, will talk about the techniques that Rackspace uses to build web applications that support customers in managing 2.5 million paid mailboxes and over 110,000 Cloud customers.

  • When: Dec 6th @ 6pm
  • Where: Rackspace Blacksburg Office inside the University Mall next to Sushi Factory
  • Will have pizza and drinks

Tech Talk: Large Scale Distributed Systems with Udi Dahan

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We had a great turnout for our last tech talk on Informed Design. The next talk is fast approaching on November 15th. Udi Dahan will be onsite at Rackspace in Blacksburg, doing an informal Q&A session with the audience. He will be answering questions on software architecture and design, so come prepared to ask a few of your own questions.

Here is a little more information about Udi taken from his website:

Udi Dahan is The Software Simplist, an internationally renowned expert on software architecture and design. A solutions architecture and connected systems MVP, 5 years in a row, Udi is also one of 33 experts in Europe recognized by the International .NET Association.

During the past decade of consulting with enterprise clients and large-scale web sites, Udi noticed they all needed service bus technology but that none of the existing offerings were good enough. After 5 years of growing a framework used by his clients in the most severe production scenarios, Udi released NServiceBus to the world. Since then, it has had over 10 major releases and is now used by companies, large and small, all over the world both for its scalability and simplicity.

We are very excited about this tech talk and hope you can make it out.

  • When: November 15th @ 6pm
  • Where: Rackspace office inside the University Mall next to Sushi Factory
  • Will have pizza and drinks