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FREE TALK In The Brain of Oren Eini aka Ayende Rahien: Sharding And Scaling with RavenDB (May 15)

From the get go, RavenDB was designed with sharding in mind. But sharding was always a complex topic, and it scared people off. Come to this free talk with Ayende Rahien to discover RavenDB sharding, discuss scaling scenarios and see how we can use RavenDB in a high traffic scenarios. Sign up here

DeNormalised NOSQL 2012 (Sept 20)

Skills Matter is delighted to announce DeNormalised NOSQL, a two-day conference packed with talks and exchanges with experts of NOSQL solutions such as Neo4J, Cassandra, and MongoDB.

Dive deep in the world of Big Data. DeNormalised NoSQL sees our NoSQL experts share their NoSQL solutions such as Cassandra, Neo4j, MongoDB and Riak with you. Put your NoSQL related questions to our panel of experts in the Park Bench discussion. Day two Lets you pick a track and work closely with our experts in hands-on workshops. Find out more here.

Ayende Rahien's RavenDB Workshop

In Ayende Rahien's fast-paced and interactive 2-day RavenDB workshop, you will learn how to use this Document Database tool efficiently in your applications to save time and effort on communicating with database storage. You will learn how to build large scale and performant applications, map objects and collections to database structures successfully. Join this RavenDB course to build a practical application which will demonstrate the all important data management patterns. Upon completion of this RavenDB course, you will be able to build database-backed applications faster and more efficiently. Find out more here

Mark Rendle's Web App Development with Nancy and Simple.Data

Mark Rendle’s two-day course will teach you the low-ceremony, low-maintenance way to create web applications using the Nancy web framework and Simple.Data data-access library. Over a series of tutorials and exercises, you will apply best practices including TDD/BDD and mocking to create a full application, and discover how these concepts are fanatically supported by both frameworks. Find out more here

Ian Robinson and Jim Webber's Neo4J Tutorial

"Graph databases like Neo4j are an esoteric and powerful member of the NOSQL family. For highly connected data, graph databases can be thousands of times faster than relational databases, making Neo4j popular for managing complex data across many domains from finance to social, and telecoms to geospatial. This intensive two-day tutorial provides a mixture of theory and hands-on practical sessions to demonstrate the capabilities of graph data and the Neo4j database. Find out more here.

MongoDB for Developers

This two-day course spans the MongoDB gamut, covering CRUD, schema design, performance tuning, map-reduce, replication, and sharding.

This course prepares you to:

• Understand the MongoDB command shell, query API, and driver tools.
• Design schemas that take advantage of the document data model and of MongoDB’s core features.
• Understand how typical RDBMS schemas can be migrated to MongoDB.
• Build efficient indexes and troubleshoot slow queries.
• Configure both master/slave replication and replica sets.
• Determine when to set up a shard cluster and how to configure it.
• Troubleshoot common issues and failure scenarios.

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MongoDB for Administrators and Operations

This course covers everything a database administrator needs to know to successfully deploy and maintain MongoDB databases and shard clusters. In addition to deployment and maintenance, course topics will include diagnosing performance issues, importing and exporting data, and establishing the proper backup and restore routines. We'll present ideal hardware configurations and discuss common pitfalls for new deployments. The course also includes an overview of the MongoDB CRUD API, the command shell, and the drivers. Find out more here

Richard Low's Cassandra Tutorial

This Cassandra training course covers everything you need to know, to successfully build applications using Cassandra. You will also learn how to deploy, scale and maintain your Cassandra cluster.

In this Cassandra course you will both learn how to develop with Cassandra, including about data model concepts, application design, APIs and drivers, as well as how to administer Cassandra: you will learn all aspects of implementing your first cluster, configuring it, scaling it as well as covering diagnosis, troubleshooting and operational tips. Find out more here.

Russel Winder's Python Workshop

In this 4-day Python Workshop, you will learn both low-level details of Python as well as the idiomatic design approaches in Python. We'll start with the language basics after which we discuss various testing strategies and their rationale. Through lectures, exercises and discussions, we'll introduce Concurrency and Parallelism after which we'll learn about GUI's. We'll then explore Networking, XML processing and Persistence when developing applications with Python. Find out more here

Udi Dahan's Advanced Distributed Systems Design with SOA

This very intensive 5-day workshop will help you take the pain out of designing large-scale distributed systems. New technologies make it easier to comply with today’s communications and security standards, but they won't magically provide you with a robust and scalable system. Join Udi for a course packed with the wisdom of companies like SUN, Amazon and eBay. Tried-and-true theories and fallacies will be shown, helping you to avoid costly mistakes. Communications patterns like publish/subscribe and correlated one-way request/response will be demonstrated, in conjunction with advanced object-oriented state management practices for long-running workflows. If you enjoy deep architectural discussion, join! To find out more, please go here

Brian Sletten's Semantic Web Technologies Bootcamp

Brian Sletten's five day Semantic Web Technologies Bootcamp provides a broad, example-driven and compelling vision of computing's future. Organisations are struggling with data integration solutions that operate at the wrong level of abstraction or are shackled to legacy systems with no idea of how to modernize incrementally. Their service-oriented architectures decompose business processes into services without the ability to identify and protect the information that flows through these services. In this course, you will learn how the technical and business value of Web semantics is available and useful today behind firewalls as well as on the public Web.
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