WYLUG

Note change of drinking venue! Further details below.

This months meeting will be on the 12th of July at Old Broadcasting House in Leeds.

Tim Nash will be giving a talk on pre-emptively scaling systems based on predicted demand.

Whenever a big humanitarian crisis occurs, major non government organisations and charities put out appeals for money, to provide aid to those in need.

Sadly not all attract the media or publics attention, in an age where a single tweet can bring in thousands of visitors these organisations donation system have to be able to handle strain of massive peaks in traffic as you would expect when the requirement of high performance, high availability is out there Linux based systems can be found.

Tim is going to discuss his recent work with the United Nations World Food Program, in delivering a high scalable system and looks how you can preempt and prepare for spikes in traffic using similar methods to track tsunamis. Ultimately allowing agencies to ratchet up their donation platforms a head of major surges in donations and then reduce down the needed nodes when the public has forgotten and the real work has started.

Tim is a “stuff consultant” currently working with the United Nations World Food Program to help deliver a donation system distributed across the internet, through a REST based API sitting on Linux (Debian), Nginx, PHP/Ruby infrastructure.

The talk will begin at 7:00pm, with the doors opening from 6:30pm for coffee and chat.

After the talk, we will move to Mr Foley’s on the Headrow for beer and geeky chatter. No formal booking has been made, but if the back room is available, then it would make sense to congregate in there.

Links/directions:

• Old Broadcasting House
• Mr Foley’s

The next WYLUG meeting is on Monday the 14th of June 2010 and will be a purely social meet.

We’ll be in The Fenton on Woodhouse Lane, Leeds from 7pm onwards.

This month, it’d be great to kick off some discussion of any potential talks people may be considering, or whether anyone they know may be amenable to speaking. Ideas and requests for talks are always welcome too.

Feel free to bring your Linux problems and issues down for the experts to take a look at (laptops only, of course).

If you’re new to Linux and want a little hand-holding, do come along, or if you just fancy a bit of geeky chat there’s always lively debate on a range of geek and non-geek subjects.

The Fenton, on Google Maps

The next WYLUG meeting is on Monday the 12th of April 2010, and will be a social meet at The Fenton.

Whilst there’s no offical start time, people will probably start to gather at around 7:00pm to 8:00pm.

If people want to bring laptops or have any Linux related problems they’d like some advice on, there should be knowledgeable folks on hand to help!

Location:
The Fenton
161 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 3ED

The next WYLUG meeting is on Monday the 8th of March 2010 at Old Broadcasting House.

This month we have a talk from Tim Nash – Developing headless web applications.

Who needs or want humans to get in the way of your applications on the web, more and more systems are moving to headless web service applications, be it checking the latest exchange rates, or sending information about an order to a third party for processing web services should be the cornerstone. Many people have been tortured by SOAP based web services fear not the solution is here with REST based applications, this talk will look at developing REST applications, backend deployment on linux systems use of Memcache, queueing systems like beanstalkd and how you can have it all up and running in under an hour or so.

The talk will start at 7:00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea and chat from 6:30pm. Afterwards, we usually go to The Fenton pub, across the road from OBH, for more geeky chatter.

Location:
Old Broadcasting House
148 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9EN

More location details on the OBH contact page or on Open Street Map.

The next WYLUG meeting is on Monday the 8th of February 2010 at Old Broadcasting House.

This month we have a talk from Tom Hall.

Tom will be giving an update to his ZFS talk of 2 years ago, recapping
that talk and introducing shiny new features that have appeared since. He will also look at btrfs and discuss why though the feature list is similar, underneath it is quite a different beast.

He will be announcing a new project to build the Storage Pods from a design released by Backblaze mid last year and a brief survey of clustered filesystems/high availability solutions to try and get robust file and block level storage on commodity hardware.

The talk will start at 7:00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea and chat from 6:30pm. Afterwards, we usually go to The Fenton pub, across the road from OBH, for more geeky chatter.

Location:
Old Broadcasting House
148 Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9EN

More location details on the OBH contact page or on Open Street Map.

The next talk is Mon 6th April, Andy Davidson on “Dynamic Routing with Open Source tools”.

THIS IS NOT THE USUAL SECOND MONDAY OF THE MONTH AND NOT THE USUAL ROOM, ROOM G05 IS OURS FROM 6-8.30

The meeting officially starts at 7:00pm, but the room will be open for coffee, tea and chat from 6:00pm. Afterwards, we usually go to the Victoria pub, behind the Town Hall, for more geeky chatter.

Location

More location details on the OBH contact page or on Open Street Map