• Tuesday 27 February 2007
  5:30pm - 7:30pm

Tim Ellis, The DBA and Cluster Scaling Engineer from Digg.com talks on scaling for Web 2.0

When:     Tuesday 27th February 2007.
Where:   CBC, Telecom Centre,
                 49 - 55 Tory St, Wellington City
                 (Follow signs to Reception, Unit 2, Level 2)
Time:       5:30 pm for 6pm start.

In the Web 2.0 world, few sites are making as many waves as Digg. But as you surf, suggest, comment and vote your way around the social software world take a moment to consider the technology behind the site: At close to a billion pages/month, scaling, backup and fault tolerance for Digg requires a team of talented and experienced engineers, one of which is coming to Wellington to speak to Unlimited Potential members.

So, at 6 pm on Tuesday 27th February come listen to Tim Ellis - veteran of "There", Friendster and currently at Digg - talk about how an emerging Web 2.0 site can scale from miniscule to massive without loss of sanity; how LiveJournal created the path most trodden; and about whether or not the best tool for the job comes from a big name vendor. He'll be available for questions during and after and, actually, would be disappointed if there weren't any.

A chance not to be missed for those involved in Web 2.0, professional DBA's or even just the casually interested. And hey, it's all free, including the beer. What's not to like? RSVP now. | Digg story