Brett Thomas, Building Scalable, Reliable Web Services using Open Source Technologies

Using real-world examples, learn how to design a complex, scalable web services system using open source technologies such as Linux, Apache, Perl, SOAP and Postgres. Discover the unexpected challenges as well as the rich opportunities available. Overall approach will be adaptable to any similar open source platforms.

Before Vindicia, Mr. Thomas was Executive Vice President of Technology for EMusic, joining Mr. Hoffman shortly after the company was founded. While at EMusic, Mr. Thomas led a team of sixty-five employees and oversaw the technical integration of several geographically diverse enterprises utilizing multiple platforms.

Mr. Thomas has been a professional software developer since 1989, and has management, contract and technical experience through roles at Network Associates, PGP, NCR, MCI and IBM. Mr. Thomas has particular expertise in the design and implementation of high transaction volume e-commerce systems, large-payload download infrastructures, conversion of paper documents to electronic formats, encryption and security.

Note: The meeting will be in Bayshore Technology Park, Suite 106 - Training Room (same building, two doors down from the room where we met in April). The meeting is hosted by Qualys, whose offices are located in the Bayshore Technology Park. The meeting room is not, however, in the Qualys office itself.

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