[GNUz] Christchurch NZPUG Meetup This Friday 01 May

[Tim Knapp]

Hi all,

If you're subscribed to the NZPUG mailing list you may've heard about
Alex Dong's trip to NZ a little while back. Here's an excerpt from his
personal page[1]:

<quote>
Founder of Haokanbu: (Nov. 2006 to Nov. 2008) China's largest photo
blogging service. Recruit and grow a highly talented engineering team.
Lived through all the startup roller roasters. Particularly in growing
the site from one server to 11 CentOS 64-bit boxes. Technologies: django
on lighttpd, mogilefs for distributed cache, memcache for distributed
cache, perlbal for load balancing, squid for front-end cache and S3 as
backup storage.
</quote>

And Alex has graciously agreed to give us a preso this coming Friday at
the usual spot. So please come along! This is a great opportunity for us
NZers as we probably haven't had to develop an app that approaches the
kind of scale Alex has dealt with.

Details of the event follow:

Date: 01 May 2009
Time: 5:30-7:30pm
URL: http://nzpug.org/MeetingsChristchurch/May2009
Talks:
      * Alex Dong: Alex's Adventures Developing http://www.haokanbu.com
(10 App Server Farm Anyone?)

Costs:
As per our last meeting we'll order some pizzas on the night and get
some donations (usually a few dollars) towards this then.

RSVP:
As per previous meetups, please send an email to <meeting-christchurch
AT nzpug DOT org> to let me know, so we can make plans for after preso
nibbles/etc.

Look forward to seeing you all there!

Kind regards,
Tim

[1] http://www.alexdong.com