Scaling e-petitions
Some of the team (Chris Parsons, Jolyon Pawlyn) behind the newly launched government e-petitions website will talk to us about the issues they had with scaling the site, how they solved them, and how they continue to monitor and improve the service:
A talk about caching, chef, munin, load testing and hosting. As part of its adoption of agile techniques and its creation of a Skunkworks division, DirectGov asked the Agile Delivery Network to build a successor website to the Number 10 e-petitions site with a 6 week deadline. The talk aims to highlight the measures taken to cope with high throughput, what worked and what could be done differently to avoid headlines like "Government's e-petition website crashes on first day".
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Agile Testing & BDD eXchange 2011 (Nov 18)
Join us for 2011's Agile Testing & BDD eXchange, an informal day of
deep technical insight and friendly discussion. Already confirmed for
the conference are Chris Matts and Christian Hassa -- don't miss your
chance to to learn, innovate and share skills, ideas, tools and
practices for enterprise software development. Get more info and sign up
here.
Andrew Chalkley's Core Ruby on Rails - “Fast Track”In this two-day course you’ll learn how to build a Ruby on Rails web application. This course covers the fundamentals of Ruby on Rails showing you the tools, tips and tricks to make your web developer career more enjoyable. To find out more, please go here
Simon Brown's Enterprise Software Developer
This 4-day practical course is about building software within an enterprise environment in a structured, lightweight and pragmatic way. It covers the complete end-to-end software development process; from planning, gathering requirements and software architecture through to the effective use of source code control, automated unit testing, continuous integration and load testing.
Pragmatic enterprise software development is about taking the best bits from traditional and modern approaches, blending them together to form a structured yet lightweight approach to building software that's appropriate to the way that your organisation works. This is what the course is all about. Find out more here.
Gojko Adzic's BDD for Developers
This hands-on BDD workshop will help you get the key skills needed to succeed with behaviour driven development and specification by example. Through simulations and practical exercises, you will apply the ideas and practices of BDD to solve the most common issues development teams have with specifications and tests. You will use Cucumber to define and automate BDD scenarios to provide stakeholders with visibility into software features and help the delivery teams drive development and build quality in from the start. Find out more here
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LRUG is the London Ruby User Group; a community of ruby developers based in and around London. We meet up at least once a month; on the 2nd Wednesday of the month we have meetings with talks, demos and such-like and then we have pub-based meetups organised on an ad-hoc basis (roughly half-way between meetings).
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PODCAST SCALING E-PETITIONS
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