Surge 2011 Hack Day & Training
New for Surge 2011: Hack/Training Day
On Wednesday, September 28th—Surge offers all day training sessions, free with your conference registration, so take advantage of this added benefit. Be sure to specify which training you'll attend when you register.
Node.js™ Hack Day presented by Joyent
Wednesday, Sept. 28th — 9am - 5pm
Location: Corinthian Room
Node.js is the hotest new web programming framework that has helped companies like LinkedIn double the performance of their application while using 98% fewer resources. Learn by doing in our Node.js hack-day with experts on hand to help you get started.
Hack for the kudos, and present to your fellow hackers. We will present the best hacks with some cool prizes.
* Please note: You should have Node installed on your laptop!
Chef Training Session presented by Opscode
Time: 1:30pm - 5:30pm, Sept 28
Location: Doric Room
This workshop will demonstrate hands-on examples. If you want to follow along, please follow this guide to prepare your laptop before the conference. This guide will walk you through a quick and easy way to get Ruby 1.9.2 and Chef ready for use.
The tutorial will focus upon using Chef and seeing what it can do. Some of the best features are server based, and we need an API for interacting. The tutorial will use Opscode Hosted Chef for the Chef Server. Opscode Hosted Chef is free for up to 5 nodes, so we can maximize learning about Chef itself. If you already have a Chef Server, you are welcome to use it where relevant for the hands on demonstrations, but you're on your own for setting it up beforehand. See the _Need Help_ section for links to instructions.
*Please perform the following installation before you arrive at the conference and do not download large packages (like Xcode) over the conference Wifi!
* Be warned....there is homework before this session!
Riak Training Session presented by Basho
Time: 1:30pm - 5:30pm, Sept 28
Location: Edinburgh Room
Riak is an open source, scalable, fully distributed database built by Basho Technologies and the Riak community. Riak is built to be the primary data store behind production applications, to be tolerant of multiple failures, and to make life easier for Ops professionals everywhere.
Here is what you can expect to learn:
- Installation and configuration of a local Riak Cluster
- Lab: Add values, read values, kill node, still see data
- Architectural Overview - Why Riak is the most fundamentally-sound distributed database available.
- Application Design, Data Model, and Querying Basics
- Riak for Operations
- Tuning and troubleshooting - What to look out for when in production
* Bonus points if you download and install Riak before arriving at this training. (Hint: It'll take you less than 5 minutes.)
Program
Joyent presents:
Node.js ™
Hack Day on September 28th. A chance for practitioners to get together for a day, and get their code on.
