Achieving scale with your infrastructure & webapps

22 March 2014   Thoughtworks, Yerawada, Pune

Scaling — as much as it is a science, is also considered to be an art. The event brings to you case studies and tool demos that can help you look at a variety of experiences and information centred around scaling.

Scaling — as much as it is a science, is also considered to be an art. The event brings to you case studies and tool demos that can help you look at a variety of experiences and information centred around scaling.

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Talks

Vagrant VMs & Provisioning: Key to efficient scaling of your team

The talk will be based on Vagrant introduction, the problems solved by Vagrant, the advantages of using Vagrant for development, a demo of Vagrant machine setup and automating the vagrant box provisioning using provisioners like Ansible or Chef.

Mihir, who loves staying technically updated, enjoys working towards setting up fast feedback systems for development & likes working with loosely coupled systems.

Mihir

Application Developer & Consultant @ ThoughtWorks

Achieving scale

A brief talk on the problems Vishal's company encountered in building a transactional application in the cloud and how they solved them. The tools they considered, the solutions they deployed and the results they delivered.

Vishal Parpia

Founder & Director @ ActivElement/CloudCover

Scaling a Social networking site: AWS+Chef

This is a story about how Arun & his team scaled up a social networking site on Amazon AWS from 1 server to a multi server cluster in multizone environment with Chef.

It will cover the following about their journey of scaling up.

  • Challenges faced
  • Technology used
  • Solutions implemented
  • Learnings

Arun is a Linux expert & evangelist with 12+ yrs of experience in Linux/Unix System Administration, Training, Databases and FOSS technologies.

Arun Tomar

Founder,
Solution Enterprises

Scaling MongoDB to 10,000 rps & beyond.

Abhishek Amberkar will share war stories about scaling MongoDB in the cloud to 10,000 requests/sec. All the things that should be in the documentation but are not, such as maintaining uptime, distributing writes in replica sets and taking hot backups. He will talk about problems, limitations and workarounds required to scale MongoDB on AWS infrastructure.

Abhishek Amberkar

DevOps Engineer
@helpshift

Schedule

Time Sessions
10:30 – 11:00
Registrations & checkin
11:00 – 11:15
Introductions
11:15 – 12:00
Vagrant VMs & Provisioning: Key to efficient scaling of your team
Mihir
12:00 – 12:45
Achieving scale
Vishal Parpia
12:45 – 01:30
Lunch & Networking
01:30 – 02:15
Scaling a Social networking site: AWS+Chef
Arun Tomar
02:15 – 03:00
Scaling MongoDB to 10,000 rps & beyond.
Abhishek Amberkar

Venue

ThoughtWorks Technologies (India) Pvt Ltd.
6th Floor, Binarius Building,
Deepak Complex, National Games Road,
Beside Sales Tax Office,
Shastrinagar, Yerawada
Pune — 411006

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