Twin Cities Software Symposium
October 10 - 12, 2008 - Minneapolis, MN
Michael Nygard
Agile technology leader and dynamicist
Michael strives to raise the bar and ease the pain for developers across the country. He shares his passion and energy for improvement with everyone he meets, sometimes even with their permission. Michael has spent the better part of 20 years learning what it means to be a professional programmer who cares about art, quality, and craft. He's always ready to spend time with other developers who are fully engaged and devoted to their work--the "wide awake" developers. On the flip side, he cannot abide apathy or wasted potential.
Michael has been a professional programmer and architect for nearly 20 years. During that time, he has delivered running systems to the U. S. Government, the military, banking, finance, agriculture, and retail industries. More often than not, Michael has lived with the systems he built. This experience with the real world of operations changed his views about software architecture and development forever.
He worked through the birth and infancy of a Tier 1 retail site and has often served as "roving troubleshooter" for other online businesses. These experiences give him a unique perspective on building software for high performance and high reliability in the face of an actively hostile environment.
Most recently, Michael wrote "Release It! Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software", a book that realizes many of his thoughts about building software that does more than just pass QA, it survives the real world. Michael previously wrote numerous articles and editorials, spoke at Comdex, and co-authored one of the early Java books.
Presentations
Design for Operations
If your software fails in production, nobody will care how great the development project was, or how well the system passed QA. Production operations, the domain of your systems' least-appreciated stakeholders, is where the rubber meets the road. Come learn how to build your systems to thrive in Operations.
If you don't want to wear a pager for the rest of your life, this session is for you.
We will explore the most critical foundations for success in Operations: transparency, control, deployments, and configuration.
Along the way, we'll see some of the organizational dysfunction that prevents smooth, successful operations. You'll learn what you can do today to avoid these dysfunctions, even if you've inherited a legacy of distrust between Development and Operations.
Software Architecture for the Cloud
Servers, storage, networking, backups... they're all vanishing into the "clouds". Cloud Computing is the emerging architecture for massive, scalable infrastructure that your company doesn't have to own or operate.
In this session, Michael will discuss the ingredients of real cloud computing and how you can apply it to your applications. He will show several architectures and discuss applications that fit each of these models. Finally, he will also talk about some of the pitfalls and problems that cloud computing customers can encounter.
The term "Cloud Computing" can be applied to everything from Software-as-a-Service (formerly known as Application Service Provider) to virtual infrastructure, grid computing, and even remote backup services. Some of these make sense, but some are just bandwagon-jumping and buzzword bingo.
From the "zero servers" web startup to the corporate IT department battling server-sprawl, cloud computing has many manifestations. This session will differentiate among the various types of cloud computing and describe applicable use cases.
The 90-Minute Startup
Cloud computing is taking the world by storm. Amazon's Web Services, EC2, and S3 provide completely virtual infrastructure, letting startup and existing companies create sites and web applications faster than ever before.
In this session, Michael will use cloud computing to create and deploy a fully-functional web site. You will learn how to create and run your own virtual infrastructure in the clouds.
It used to take weeks and months to stand up a new site. You had to buy hardware, rent (or build) space, rack, stack, and cable it, and then you'd finally get to start installing operating systems, databases, and so on.
These days, none of that is necessary. You can run a real business on the net without ever owning anything. Best of all, you can be up and running in a single day.
A day? Trivial you say? OK, we'll make it an hour and a half, with time for questions.
Books
by Michael T. Nygard
List Price: $34.95
Price: $23.06
You Save: $11.89 (34%)
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Whether it's in Java, .NET, or Ruby on Rails, getting your application ready to ship is only half the battle. Did you design your system to survivef a sudden rush of visitors from Digg or Slashdot? Or an influx of real world customers from 100 different countries? Are you ready for a world filled with flakey networks, tangled databases, and impatient users?
If you're a developer and don't want to be on call for 3AM for the rest of your life, this book will help.
In Release It!, Michael T. Nygard shows you how to design and architect your application for the harsh realities it will face. You'll learn how to design your application for maximum uptime, performance, and return on investment.
Mike explains that many problems with systems today start with the design.
Price: $23.06
You Save: $11.89 (34%)
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Whether it's in Java, .NET, or Ruby on Rails, getting your application ready to ship is only half the battle. Did you design your system to survivef a sudden rush of visitors from Digg or Slashdot? Or an influx of real world customers from 100 different countries? Are you ready for a world filled with flakey networks, tangled databases, and impatient users?
If you're a developer and don't want to be on call for 3AM for the rest of your life, this book will help.
In Release It!, Michael T. Nygard shows you how to design and architect your application for the harsh realities it will face. You'll learn how to design your application for maximum uptime, performance, and return on investment.
Mike explains that many problems with systems today start with the design.
by Bryan Morgan, Michael Morrison, Michael T. Nygard, Dan Joshi, Tom Trinko, and Mike Cohn
Price: $59.99
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A reference guide to the Java language, migrations and integration, the Java compiler, Java application development, the Java interpreter and applet viewer, HTML, browsers and the Java debugger. Descriptions and examples of every type of Java package, class and interface are included.
- A reference guide to the Java language, migrations and integration, the Java compiler, Java application development, the Java interpreter and applet viewer, HTML, browsers and the Java debugger. Descriptions and examples of every type of Java package, class and interface are included.
