Our web guru Jeff Sarmiento has put together a sweet page of resources from past mesh events. It’s such a nice job I can’t help writing about it. We had a lot of fun in 2006 and 2007 – it’s great to have a quick way to connect to those memories. More links to video etc. will be going up on the page soon. Nice job, Jeff!
Avi Bryant just shipped me info for his workshop for the development stream at meshU.
Avi is a bit of a genius, the developers at my office may or may not worship his mental ingenuity and technical creativity (my words, not theirs). But don’t take my/their word for it, Toronto tech scene instigator and Microsoftie David Crow sounded off last week…I trust others will follow.
Anyway, here is a bit about Avi’s workshop:
Turning the Tables: Moving Beyond Relational Storage
Google doesn’t store your GMail in a MySQL table. Your Amazon shopping cart doesn’t act_as_list. Orbitz doesn’t run a SELECT to find the best flights. But when choosing technology, nearly every new web startup will reach for a relational database. Why? Can we do better?
This workshop will take a tour through how and why many of the most successful web applications store data outside of the confines of a RDBMS. We’ll explore when you should follow conventional wisdom about persistence and when you should go your own way: whether that means using a memory store, flat files, an object database, or a data service like Amazon’s SimpleDB or Microsoft’s SSDS.
The technology you use at the beginning of a project will have a profound impact as you grow. Make a thoughtful and informed choice, and your users and developers will both thank you later.
And about the man himself:
Avi Bryant is a founder and co-CEO of Dabble DB, a venture-backed startup based in Vancouver, BC. He’s also the creator of the Seaside web framework, and has given keynotes at RailsConf, Smalltalk Solutions, and elsewhere about his unusual – some say heretical – approaches to web development.
Don’t forget to get your meshU tickets!
Tickets for this year’s mesh conference have only been on sale for a week but more than 100 have been snapped up. Sure, mesh is still seven weeks away but the early bird catches the worm while the bird who waits until the last minute is often disappointed.
You can purchase your mesh tickets here, while tickets for meshU – our new workshop, hands-on event featuring speakers such as Pownce’s Leah Culver and Digg’s Daniel Burka, can be bought here.
