CIE Seattle Tech Startups
Date Thursday, November 11
Time 7:00-9:00 PM
Location: North campus, Bank of America Executive Education Center – Douglas Forum: http://www.washington.edu/maps/?l=EXED
Event Details: Meeting between students and entrepreneurs in the Seattle area who give and seek advice on running technology startups. The topic is four useful technologies you should know. Specifically:
- Solr: a faceted search engine. Great for full text search, but oh so much more. Learn more from Paul Brown whose data processing and visualization consulting firm uses Solr as a key part of their visualization stack.
- Event Machine: an event processing library for Ruby. Learn about how evented servers give you scalable non-blocking i/o (and why you should care), help with lots of concurrent connections and more. The speaker is Jeff Wartes from Whitepages, where he used EventMachine to build a new high-throughput service whose primary requirement was tolerance of outside failures.
- Redis: an in-memory, persistent, key value store with push and pop operators. Ever wanted memcache with persistence? Or an easy-to-use in-memory queue? Learn about the versatility of Redis as a simple to setup and use, but flexible and powerful new tool.
- Node.js: similar to Event Machine, Node.js is Javascript’s answer to evented servers.
No need to sign-up to attend. You can just show up.
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Sarah Massey, Assistant Director
Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Michael G. Foster School of Business
University of Washington
P: 206.685.9868 | masses@uw.edu