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Prepping to Speak at Tech Conferences: From AWS re:Invent to GopherCon

Getting ready to speak at a technical conference can be as nerve-wracking as it is exciting, especially if it’s your first time.

Having had the opportunity to present at notable events like AWS re:Invent, Monitorama, DevOps Days, and GopherCon, I’ve learned a thing or two about preparing for the big stage.

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Infrastructure at Scale: Apache Kafka, Twitter Storm and elasticsearch

storm_logoAWS have posted the video online of Jim Nisbet’s and my talk at AWS:reinvent 2013. In it, Jim and I describe the system we built at Loggly, which uses Apache Kafka, Twitter Storm, and elasticseach, to build a high-performance log aggregation and analytics SaaS solution, running on AWS EC2.

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Speaking at AWS re:Invent 2013

amazon.com_web_servicesThis past week I had the opportunity to speak, with my colleague Jim Nisbet, at AWS re:Invent 2013. Titled “Unmeltable Infrastructure at Scale: Using Apache Kafka, Twitter Storm, and Elastic Search on AWS“, Jim and I described the architecture of Loggly’s next-generation log aggregation and analytics Infrastructure, which went live 3 months ago, and runs on AWS EC2.

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