Building powerful web applications in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud

This is a joint meetup with LAMPSIG, LAPHP & LAWebSpeed.

MEETING DATE & TIME:

Monday, February 21, 2011 at 7:00 PM

MEETING LOCATION:

Working Village
212 Marine street
Suite 100
Santa Monica, CA 90405
Phone: 310-450-7070

TOPIC:


Building powerful web applications in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud

Building the right infrastructure that can scale up or down in a moment's notice can
be a complicated and expensive task, but it's essential in today's business landscape.
This applies to an enterprise trying to cut-costs, a young business unexpectantly
saturated with customer demand, or a start-up looking to launch.

In this talk, Jinesh Varia will discuss how to build a Simple LAMP-based web
application in the AWS cloud and then apply all the attributes and latest features
of the cloud to turn it into an Auto-scalable, highly available, highly scalable, fully-
monitored edge-cached application that is not only easier to develop but also easier
to maintain. The session will be ideal for those who have some familiarly of AWS and
its offerings and are looking to build LAMP based application. The lessons and best
practices that you learn from this session can be applied to any cloud application,
whether it is a Facebook social gaming application or cloud service accessed from a
mobile application, software as a service application.

PRESENTER:

JINESH VARIA, TECHNOLOGY EVANGELIST, AMAZON WEB SERVICES, AMAZON.COM


As a Technology Evangelist at Amazon, Jinesh Varia helps businesses take
advantage of disruptive technologies like Cloud Computing that are changing the
way businesses compete in the new web world. Jinesh has spoken at more than
150 conferences and User Groups around the world. His passion lies in architecture,
design and XML Web services. He is focused on furthering awareness of web services
and often helps developers and architects in Start-ups, Enterprises and Universities
leverage Amazon’s innovative services.

Jinesh has over 15 years experience in XML and Web services and has worked with
standards-based working groups in XBRL. Prior to joining Amazon as an evangelist,
he held several positions in UBmatrix including Solutions Architect, Enterprise Team
Lead and Software engineer, working on various financial services projects including
Call Modernization Project at FDIC. He was also lead developer at Penn State Data
Center, Institute of Regional Affairs. Jinesh’s publications have been published
in ACM and IEEE. Jinesh is originally from India and holds a Master’s degree in
Information Systems from Penn State University.



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