Nimret Sandhu
2013-09-13 20:41:44 UTC
I hope everyone's enjoying the nice sept weather. Speaking of sept, it's
time for the monthly SeaJUG meeting. This month's speaker is going to be
talking about a java based cloud technology at Amazon and it happens to
coincide with our move from REI to Amazon (details below).
Henceforth our new meeting location will be a few blocks away at Amazon in
south lake union (exact building TBD soon). We will probably still have a
meeting on the Eastside before the year is out though.
I will be video-taping the meeting but it's best to attend in person if
you're interested in the topic. TekSystems will be providing pizza+pop as
always.
cheers,
-
Nimret Sandhu
http://www.nimret.org
*17 Sep 2013: Amazon Flow and SWF*
Flow is a Java framework that uses the SWF APIs to coordinate units of work
across distributed machines. You can think of SWF as the control, routing,
and matching engine for tasks that must be processed by java
applications/classes that are distributed across machines. The Flow
framework provides an easy way for developers to build a state machine that
knows what's happening across these distributed units of work and to know
what steps need to be processed next. On top of that, it helps audit and
maintain the history of work that has transpired. Flow also includes simple
sets of Java annotations and control flow processing done by the Flow
Framework to allow for asynchronous Java code to execute without overly
complicating the data passing and exception handling paths.
In this session, we will walk through a use case to show how to solve
difficult distributed systems problems using Flow and Amazon Simple
Workflow<http://aws.amazon.com/swf/>.
You will walk away from this session with an understanding of how Amazon
Simple Workflow brings resiliency, concurrency, and auditability to your
applications.
About Amazon Simple Workflow: SWF provides the processing engine and
programming frameworks that handle the complexity of state machinery and
infrastructure code across computing nodes so our customers can focus on
their business logic. Customers use Amazon Simple Workflow to coordinate,
operate, and audit multiple steps across multiple machines - across the
cloud or in their own data centers.
Speaker: Asad Jawahar
Asad Jawahar is a Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services where
he leads the development of programmability features for the Amazon Simple
Workflow Service (SWF). Asad has extensive experience in messaging and
workflow systems. Before joining Amazon, Asad worked for Microsoft on
various technologies including Windows Azure AppFabric, Windows
Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation. Asad holds a
Masters degree in Computer Science from the University Of Washington.
Free Pizza, pop & beers are provided by TekSystems<http://www.teksystems.com/>
.
time for the monthly SeaJUG meeting. This month's speaker is going to be
talking about a java based cloud technology at Amazon and it happens to
coincide with our move from REI to Amazon (details below).
Henceforth our new meeting location will be a few blocks away at Amazon in
south lake union (exact building TBD soon). We will probably still have a
meeting on the Eastside before the year is out though.
I will be video-taping the meeting but it's best to attend in person if
you're interested in the topic. TekSystems will be providing pizza+pop as
always.
cheers,
-
Nimret Sandhu
http://www.nimret.org
*17 Sep 2013: Amazon Flow and SWF*
Flow is a Java framework that uses the SWF APIs to coordinate units of work
across distributed machines. You can think of SWF as the control, routing,
and matching engine for tasks that must be processed by java
applications/classes that are distributed across machines. The Flow
framework provides an easy way for developers to build a state machine that
knows what's happening across these distributed units of work and to know
what steps need to be processed next. On top of that, it helps audit and
maintain the history of work that has transpired. Flow also includes simple
sets of Java annotations and control flow processing done by the Flow
Framework to allow for asynchronous Java code to execute without overly
complicating the data passing and exception handling paths.
In this session, we will walk through a use case to show how to solve
difficult distributed systems problems using Flow and Amazon Simple
Workflow<http://aws.amazon.com/swf/>.
You will walk away from this session with an understanding of how Amazon
Simple Workflow brings resiliency, concurrency, and auditability to your
applications.
About Amazon Simple Workflow: SWF provides the processing engine and
programming frameworks that handle the complexity of state machinery and
infrastructure code across computing nodes so our customers can focus on
their business logic. Customers use Amazon Simple Workflow to coordinate,
operate, and audit multiple steps across multiple machines - across the
cloud or in their own data centers.
Speaker: Asad Jawahar
Asad Jawahar is a Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services where
he leads the development of programmability features for the Amazon Simple
Workflow Service (SWF). Asad has extensive experience in messaging and
workflow systems. Before joining Amazon, Asad worked for Microsoft on
various technologies including Windows Azure AppFabric, Windows
Communication Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation. Asad holds a
Masters degree in Computer Science from the University Of Washington.
Free Pizza, pop & beers are provided by TekSystems<http://www.teksystems.com/>
.