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20th October 2010:

CloudCamp London co-located with IPExpo at Earls Court, starting at 3:30pm. Another in the global series of community lead unconferences, details at  http://www.cloudcamp.org/london.

4th November 2010:

Not strictly a AWSUG meetup but please come along to Daniel Sikar’s talk “In memory datagrids on Amazon EC2″ 18:30  at SkillsMatter, 116-120 Goswell Road, London, EC1V 7DP. Sign up at http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/cloud-grid/running-memcached-clusters-on-amazon-ec2.

9th November 2010:

Amazon presents the AWS Tech Summit for Developers and Architects in London.

30th November 2010:

CloudCamp London co-located with the Business Cloud Summit http://www.businesscloud9.com/summit/2010, who are inviting the CloudCamp comminuty to attend free of charge the Infrastructure Stream of the Summit – a room titled “cloud 10 years later” with speaking slots by HP Labs plus programming tables from several other providers.

http://www.cloudcamp.org/london/2010-11-30

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Craig Box here.

Over the past few months, my team and I have been hard at work migrating the Symbian Foundation‘s hosted services (web sites, version control hosting, source code cross-referencer/index, search, wiki, forums, etc) into Amazon EC2.

Cloud computing is easy when you have nodes that can turn themselves on, request a dataset, process it, and then continue. Working with an application which doesn’t even know it’s running in EC2 poses a particular set of challenges, but is an increasingly common use case, as people start wanting to migrate their applications from traditional server or VM hosting into the cloud. EC2 differs from standard virtual hosting in many regards, and over the course of the next few weeks I will be posting a number of articles talking about these differences, and how you can work around them. You will learn how we approached our migration, and if your organisation would benefit from doing the same.

The articles are suitable for sysadmin to CIO (and either side of that too); there will be code/config snippets, but there will be discussion about the financial pros and cons to offset it.

Check out the first posts here:

• Clouded house: How we moved our service to EC2 without it even knowing, and how you can too
• Initial design considerations
• Instance sizing
• Load balancing

A talk on this topic is being prepared for presentation later in the year also. Contact me if you’d be interested in my delivering it to your group or organisation!

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