Elemental Technologies

ABOUT THE GROUP: pdxdevops is a Portland, Oregon user group that explores the glorious intersection of software development and systems operations, and shares practical advice on working effectively in an era of agile infrastructure, server automation and cloud computing. Meetings are usually on the third Monday of the month. Website: http://pdxdevops.org/ && Twitter: @pdxdevops

Topic: Data Transfer and Storage Optimization in Amazon Web Services

Elemental Technologies specializes in video transcoding software, and moving video around means moving huge amounts of data. Elemental's CTO, Jesse Rosenzweig, will share tricks and techniques for getting data in and out of the cloud quickly and safely. He will cover various options and configurations within Amazon Web Services, including ways to get the most out of S3 (Simple Storage Service) and EBS (Elastic Block Store).

Amazon Web Services will be sponsoring this event by providing beer and pizza for us!

Thanks to Elemental for providing the space, and pizza & beer!

PRESENTATIONS

• We'll have a short time at the beginning of the meeting to share some stories about Igal, then can continue at the after-meeting-beer.
• Markus Roberts, Ruby Hangman for Martes, Seite de Mayo
• Bill Den Beste, Reprise, Inc.: Generating Business Documents with Prawn
• Reid Beels: Generating Business Documents with PDFKit
• ...and lots of great group discussions on Ruby-related topics.

ABOUT THE GROUP: The Portland Ruby Brigade, also known as pdxruby and pdx.rb, is a user group for Ruby programmers in the Portland, Oregon area. The group welcomes all programmers interested in the language and its implementations, tools, libraries and frameworks, such as Ruby on Rails. The group has been meeting since August 2002 for presentations, demos and discussions. Every month 35-75 people come together to share their knowledge, projects and enthusiasm for Ruby. If you'd like to present or have a topic you'd like discussed, please post to the mailing list. The group usually meets on the first Tuesday of the month, "Ruby Tuesday" -- see you there!

The new PDX Git Together is fast-forwarding into the future!

We have a new regular venue at Elemental Technologies and there will be food provided by Puppet Labs for those that profess a boundless love for directed acyclic graphs.

Remember to thank Puppet Labs for the food!

The following people will be presenting:

Jonathan "Duke" Leto will present on the .gitconfig of @igalko . In particular, Duke will describe why Igal's .gitconfig was so amazing, as well as comparing it to the Duke's own .gitconfig for maximal DAG-induced enlightment.

@bak will be presenting about the git code-review utility and how it can do so much in so few lines of code. After this, you will be able to answer the question "WTF is a commitish?".

There is usually an informal "drinkup" after the meeting at Baileys Tap Room downstairs. If you are headed to the meeting late, we may have migrated there.

Would you like to present at a future PDX Git Together? Send an email to the pdxgit mailing list and/or contact Duke at duke@leto.net .

Would you like to sponsor food or other stuff for future PDX Git Togethers? Contact Duke at duke@leto.net .

This meeting will be held on 04-22

Hey everyone -

I sincerely apologize for canceling this event with such a late notice. The Portland tech community lost one of its most prominent members yesterday, Igal Koshevoy: http://stumptownsyndicate.org/2013/04/09/goodbye-igal/

Personally, I'm going to need some time to process this loss and I believe others will as well. I apologize to those who didn't know Igal and were looking forward to the meeting tonight. We'll reschedule Jesse's talk on Storage with AWS for next month (May 8th).

If you have any questions, please feel free to use the Google Groups mailing list or contact me directly: - https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/pdxcloud - jason.lapier@gmail.com

The new PDX Git Together is fast-forwarding into the future!

We have a new regular venue at Elemental Technologies and there will be food provided by Puppet Labs for those that profess a boundless love for directed acyclic graphs.

Remember to thank Puppet Labs for the food!

The following people will be presenting:

Duke Leto: State of The DAG, including the new PDX Git logo and website updates

Chris Swenson: The Github API

There is usually an informal "drinkup" after the meeting at Baileys Tap Room downstairs. If you are headed to the meeting late, we may have migrated there.

Would you like to present at a future PDX Git Together? Send an email to the pdxgit mailing list and/or contact Duke at duke@leto.net .

Would you like to sponsor food or other stuff for future PDX Git Togethers? Contact Duke at duke@leto.net .

ABOUT THE GROUP: pdxdevops is a Portland, Oregon user group that explores the glorious intersection of software development and systems operations, and shares practical advice on working effectively in an era of agile infrastructure, server automation and cloud computing. Meetings are usually on the third Monday of the month. Website: http://pdxdevops.org/ && Twitter: @pdxdevops

One of the top challenges of developing web-based services is building the continuous deployment process. Engineering teams spend over 30% of their developer resources building processes like “Deploy my app to Heroku from Github when I say 'deploy' in HipChat”. Most of this time is spent gluing together numerous services (e.g. Github, AWS, Hipchat) and technologies (e.g. Chef, Salt Stack) to work in a cohesive workflow. Maciej Skierkowski, co-founder and CEO of Factor, will show how you can automate your continuous integration and deployment processes in just a couple minutes.

WHEN: Wednesday, March 13th. Doors at 6:30pm, presentation starts at 7pm. There will be lots of pizza and beer so come hungry and thirsty.

RSVP on Plancast: http://plancast.com/p/h2k0 OR Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/PDXCloud/events/107970162/

Contact Christine @ christinej@elementaltechnologies.com for more information

The new PDX Git Together is happening! We have a new regular venue at Elemental Technologies and there will be food provided (thanks Elemental!) for those that profess a boundless love for directed acyclic graphs.

The following people will be presenting:

Jonathan "Duke" Leto - An update about PDXGit Together and recent Git news

Justin Abrahms will present about Gitstreams

Lyzi Diamond will present about how the PyLadiesPDX community uses Github and Github Pages to run pyladiespdx.github.com

Would you like to present at a future PDX Git Together? Send an email to the pdxgit mailing list and/or contact Duke at duke@leto.net .

Would you like to sponsor food or other stuff for future PDX Git Togethers? Contact Duke at duke@leto.net .

ABOUT THE GROUP: pdxdevops is a Portland, Oregon user group that explores the glorious intersection of software development and systems operations, and shares practical advice on working effectively in an era of agile infrastructure, server automation and cloud computing. Meetings are usually on the third Monday of the month. Website: http://pdxdevops.org/ && Twitter: @pdxdevops

Problems of scale are no longer limited to people with massive deployments as those deployment approaches are now trickling down to small deployments. Carl Hall, engineer at Cloudability, will discuss points of failure, how to recover/not explode and and considerations to make when developing in the cloud versus local development.

If you're thinking about moving to cloud-based development and deployment, or if you're just getting started with it, you'll find a lot of useful material here. If you're a cloud veteran, please come and contribute your experience to the discussion.

This month our meeting is sponsored by GLIDER (formerly Superbly) - be sure to thank them for supplying the beer and pizza!

WHEN: Wednesday, Feb 13th. Doors at 6:30pm, presentation starts at 7pm.

RSVP on Plancast: http://plancast.com/p/g341

Contact Christine @ christinej@elementaltechnologies.com for more information

Come join us for pizza and beer as we celebrate the new year (because you can't celebrate enough) and embark on our next discussion - speak and topic TBD.

Doors open at 6:30, presentations start at 7pm. Please let us know if you can make it: http://plancast.com/p/ferv

Contact Christine @ christineg@elementaltechnologies.com for more information

Come by as early as 6:30pm to get a head start on socializing and eating.

PRESENTATIONS:

• "Where to keep configuration data?" Talk discussing the various ways to store the data used as parameters for your configurations and their pros/cons. Sample code will be for Chef, but Puppet equivalents of most of these alternatives will be mentioned.
• ...and a lot more!

ABOUT THE GROUP: pdxdevops is a Portland, Oregon user group that explores the glorious intersection of software development and systems operations. The group meets regularly to share practical advice on working effectively in an era of agile infrastructure, server automation, configuration management, and cloud computing. Meetings are usually on the third Monday of the month. Website: http://pdxdevops.org/ && Twitter: @pdxdevops

ABOUT THE SPONSOR: The venue, food and refreshments are provided by Elemental Technologies, a Portland, Oregon software company that specializes in massively parallel processing solutions for video encoding, decoding and transcoding of video over IP networks. For more information, visit http://www.elementaltechnologies.com/

Come join us for pizza and beer and talk cloud technologies. This week, James Casey, Senior Software Development Engineer at Opscode will give an overview of System Configuration Management, a critical component of cloud-based deployment. He will also introduce us to Chef, a widely used configuration management tool.

Doors open at 6:30, presentations start at 7pm. Please let us know if you can make it: http://plancast.com/p/f2pj

Contact Christine @ christineg@elementaltechnologies.com for more information or check out the Meetup page: http://www.meetup.com/PDXCloud/?a=wm1&rv=wm1&ec=wm1#upcoming or Google group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!forum/pdxcloud

Come join us for pizza and beer as we kick off the first PDXCloud meeting!

Jesse Rosenzweig, CTO and Co-founder of Elemental, will talk about leveraging graphics processing units (GPUs) in Amazon Web Services and Jeremy Wagner-Kaiser, Senior Software Engineer at Cloudability, will give an overview of different cloud service offerings. We will also brainstorm topics for future PDXCloud meetings.

Doors open at 6:30, presentations start at 7pm. Please let us know if you can make it: http://plancast.com/p/degd

Contact Christine @ christineg@elementaltechnologies.com for more information

PRESENTATIONS:

• Jacob Helwig and Markus Roberts: Ruby hangman puzzle
• Igal Koshevoy on using the factory_girl and database_cleaner gems to make integration testing with database records easier, clearer, faster and properly isolated.
• ...and a lot of discussions on various Ruby-related topics

IMPORTANT: Help us prepare enough food and drink for you by (1) going to this Plancast page and clicking the "count me in" link on right side, and (2) tell us which pizza you want.

ABOUT THE GROUP: The Portland Ruby Brigade, also known as pdxruby and pdx.rb, is a user group for Ruby programmers in the Portland, Oregon area. The group welcomes all programmers interested in the language and its implementations, tools, libraries and frameworks, such as Ruby on Rails. The group has been meeting since August 2002 for presentations, demos and discussions. Every month 35-75 people come together to share their knowledge, projects and enthusiasm for Ruby. If you'd like to present or have a topic you'd like discussed, please post to the mailing list. The group usually meets on the first Tuesday of the month, "Ruby Tuesday" -- see you there!

ABOUT THE SPONSOR: The venue, food and refreshments are provided by Elemental Technologies, a Portland, Oregon software company that specializes in massively parallel processing solutions for video encoding, decoding and transcoding of video over IP networks. For more information, visit http://www.elementaltechnologies.com/