Ricston
Ricston specialises in creating and distributing packaged Training Courses for Open Source technologies. We work extensively with partners both to develop and to deliver professional training to high standards to users and businesses alike worldwide.
Ricston offers services and training products for open source projects. Ricston is a MuleSource Premier Partner and offers a full range of products and services for Mule.
Mule
Mule is the leading open source ESB and integration platform, used for system to system messaging, as transactional middleware, or as part of an application server.
Ricston and Skills Matter
Skills Matter and Ricston work in close partnership in the UK, to provide Mule related training courses aimed at developers, architects and system administrators, to support the Open Source and Mule community in the UK.
-
Eucalyptus
Featuring Simon Wardley
Why don't financial institutions embrace cloud based computing solution? Is it possible to evaluate cloud concepts internally using standard API but running on the institutions own hardware, then move to external solution with none/minimal api impact? Eucalyptus could be the way forward!
cloud ubuntu eucalyptus -
Waking up to the New Economics of IT
Featuring Emma McGrattan
Emma will discuss how an independent bank specialising in financing enterprises embraced the New Economics of IT and how an open source solution delivered low cost and accelerated innovation.
-
Making every millisecond count! JVM performance tuning in the real-world
Featuring Ben Evans
Why is performance analysis so hard to do well? What features of Java are the actual big-ticket items when it comes to performance? How much have recent advances in the JVM really helped? and more...
jvm java c++ -
Hand me the spanner, I think it's going to break
Featuring Janne Valkealahti
Janne Valkealahti will give a talk on Hyperic, the web application performance management software provider, recently acquired by SpringSource. More information coming soon!
hyperic springsource open-source -
Scala, A better language for finance?!
Featuring Alex McGuire
After describing some of the areas of Scala that are of particular interest in financial development, Alex talks about the reasons Scala improved his team's productivity, reduced the size of the codebase and eased maintainance.
scala finance functional-programming -
-
Ingres Database Workbench
The Ingres Database Workbench (IDW) is a powerful, low-overhead tool that makes Ingres database maintenance faster and easier and simplifies database management tasks. IDW is based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP).
ingres eclipse -
Climbing mount complexity, one event at a time
Featuring David Vincent
In this talk David Vincent explores how open source software, particularly ESPER Complex Event Processing and QuickFixJ are used today in leading Liquidity Management Systems (LMS).
open-source -
Ingres Database Administration (part 2)
Ingres Visual SQL provides a client interface to manipulate data. The Query Execution Plan can be displayed for performance analysis.The second part of the workshop will demonstrate how to manipulate data using Ingres Visual SQL.Other VDBA options are covered, including table management, database...
ingres -
I need market data and I need it 1ms ago!
Featuring Angelo Corsaro
In this talk, Angelo will explain how OpenSplice DDS is an Open Source technology for ultra-low-latency data distribution that is conquering the Capital Markets.
opensplice latency stability caching