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Software Architecture & Modeling SIG

The Software Architecture & Modeling (SAM) SIG focuses on two main areas: the roles and responsibilities of the software architect and related functions; and technical matters of interest to the architect / abstractionist / modeler.

Meetings will generally be structured in a two-part format: in the first part a practicing software architect will present topics based on real-world experience in the domain. The second part will be a technical presentation that addresses tools, techniques & methodologies and similar subjects.

Sponsor:

The SAM SIG is sponsored by: Agilis Solutions.

Next Meeting:


6:30PM - 9:00PM March 24, 2010
Cubberley Community Center
4000 Middlefield Rd., RM H-1
Palo Alto, 94304, CA
Title: Building Search Engine in the Social Media Era Description of Talk: Rising of social networks like Twitter and Facebook has been flooding the web with user-generated contents in the amount that was never seen before. As we become more depending on the social media for daily information gathering and social interaction, we have started to demand more from search engines, such as real time conversations and social connections. Such new environment is forcing search engine technology to evolve. This presentation will first review the traditional search engine technologies and architecture. Then, we will talk about some of the new architectures for supporting real time search and social search. The last part of the presentation is devoted to discussion of the emerging real time web monitoring system, the cousin of search engine. Social media monitoring is predicted to become a mainstream tool for consumers and businesses because the inherent collective intelligece has the potential to further increase the efficiency of finding information and making decision as what search engine has done. Speaker Bio: AJ Chen, Technical Architect, Healthline Networks Inc. AJ Chen, Ph.D., is an advocate of semantic web, social media monitoring, and digital health. As a Technical Architect at Healthline, he applies semantic technology in developing healthcare search engine for consumers. He started SDForum Semantic Web SIG in 2006, a public forum exploring how semantic technology is making the web and social media more intelligent. Working with open communities, AJ also promotes free real time monitoring of social media on web2express.org website. From 2000 to 2006, Dr. Chen had been developing new genome sequencing technologies for personalized medicine, playing technical and product management roles at Hyseq, Callida Genomics, and Complete Genomics. Previously, Dr. Chen worked with Nobel Prize winner Dr. Barry Marshall to commercialize new medical innovations in China. Dr. Chen earned his Ph. D. in Biochemistry from U. of Utah and did postdoctoral research after joining Harvard Medical School and Duke Medical School. Location: Cubberley Community Center 4000 Middlefield Road, Room H-1 Palo Alto, CA Agenda: 6:30 - 7:00 p.m. Registration/Networking/Refreshments/Pizza 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Presentations Price: $15 at the door for non-SDForum members No charge for SDForum members No registration required
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Past Events:

February 24, 2010	SAM SIG: Delivering and Deploying Applications in Cloud Environments
January 27, 2010	SAM SIG: LinkedIn Search Architecture
December 8, 2009	SAM SIG: A Systematic and Platform Independent Approach to Time and Synchronization
October 28, 2009	SAM SIG: Technical Challenges and Issues Solved to Create the New eBay Developer Platform
September 23, 2009	SAM SIG: Context-Driven Design
August 26, 2009	SAM SIG: Project Voldemort: Scalable Fault Tolerant Distributed Storage at LinkedIn

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Resources:

August 30, 2009	Project Voldemort (Powerpoint)
June 30, 2009	090624 Solving Problems with Actors, Robey Pointer, Twitter (other files)
May 29, 2009	Hadoop architecture, MapReduce patterns, and best practices w/Cascading (other files)
April 25, 2009	Cassandra Architectures: Facebook engineers Avinash Lakshman, Prashant Malik (Powerpoint)
March 26, 2009	Craig Weissman, CSA, Salesforce.com "Multi-Tenant Magic: Under the Covers of the Force.com Architecture" (Powerpoint)
February 25, 2009	SAM SIG: Clustered Architecture Patterns: Delivering Scalability and Availability, (other files)
December 10, 2008	The Evolving Architecture of the Web (Powerpoint)
August 7, 2008	The Skills You Need (Powerpoint)
August 7, 2008	RIAs: Canoo's ULC (other files)
April 24, 2008	SAM SIGHypertable Architecture PPT (Powerpoint)
April 1, 2008	Deck from: SaaS: SDLC framework solutions (Word)
October 29, 2007	SAM SIG Slides - Paul Priess of IASA (Powerpoint)

SIG Chairs:

Steve Mezak - Accelerance CEO Steve Mezak is a veteran of six Silicon Valley startups, including Aspect Development (sold to i2 for $9 Billion) and Digital Market (sold to Agile Software for $75 Million). Steve has mastered global software development in a variety of management and technical roles, including CTO and CEO with more than 25 years of software development experience. Steve attended UC Berkeley, the City University in London, and holds a BS Degree in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He continues to serve as an advisor to WPI's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. An internationally acclaimed speaker and author, Steve's most recent book is Software without Borders: A Step-By-Step Guide to Outsourcing Your Software Development.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/stevemezak

http://www.SteveMezak.com

Waiming Mok - is a product management and marketing professional who has launched 8 successful products with accumulated revenue of over $1 billion. He was Product Line Manager at Sun Microsystems for the last 10 years. Waiming is technical and analytical, good at writing and presentations. He is keen on creating and building products and generating revenue from the resulting business. His technology focus areas are compute infrastructure, networking, web 2.0, and programming.

Waiming's Blog: http://waimingmok.wordpress.com

To contact the SIG chairs: email them at: SAMSIG (at) sdforum.org.

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