Date:  Jul 07/29/12 7:21 PM
Subject: NEJUG Meeting Announcement: High Performance Messaging - Thu, Aug 9


Our next meeting will by on Thu, Aug 9, to hear Mark Richards present High Performance Messaging which once again will be at Constant Contact.

Register now to reserve your seat

As always the doors will open at 5pm for networking, pizza provided by Constant Contact will arrive around 5:30pm,
and the presentation will take place at 6pm. Come early meet someone new and ensure you get a good seat.

Presentation Overview:


If you need your messaging-based systems to be fast - really fast - then this is the session to attend.
In this session I will introduce and demonstrate some relatively simple tips and tricks to get the best
performance and throughput from your messaging system. Through live code demonstrations I will show the
impact of both configuration and design changes using Spring, ActiveMQ, and RabbitMQ. So buckle up those
seat belts - its going to be a fast ride.

Agenda:


    Spring-based Messaging Performance Techniques
    JMS Models and Performance: P2P and Pub/Sub
    Messaging Standards and Performance: JMS vs. AMQP
    Using Multiple Queues with Competing Consumers
    Using Multiple Queues with a Single Consumer
    Guaranteed Delivery and Performance

About the presenter:

Mark Richards is an Independent Consultant working in the field as an Enterprise, Integration,
 and Application Architect, where he is involved in the architecture, design, and implementation
of SOA, EDA, messaging, and other architectures, primarily in the Java platform. Previously,
Mark was an Executive IT Architect with IBM, where he worked as an SOA and enterprise architect
in the financial services area. He has been involved in the software industry since 1984 and has
many battle scars to show for it. Mark served as the President of the Boston Java User Group in 1997 and 1998,
and the President of the New England Java Users Group from 1999 thru 2003. Mark is the author of the
book Java Message Service (2nd edition) from O'Reilly. He is also the author of Java Transaction Design
Strategies, contributing author of the book 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know from O'Reilly,
contributing author of NFJS Anthology Volume 1, and contributing author of NFJS Anthology Volume 2.
Mark has many architect and developer certifications, including those from IBM, Sun, The Open Group,
and Oracle. He is a regular conference speaker at the No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium Series and speaks
at other conferences and user groups around the world. When he is not working Mark can usually be
found hiking with his wife and two daughters in the White Mountains or along the Appalachian Trail.

As always, I want to take a moment to thank our sponsors:

    Constant Contact for pizza, water, and our meeting location
    O'Reilly for e-book certificates
    JetBrains for the monthly IntelliJ license
    Hello2morrow for their raffle contribution of a SonarJ personal license
    No Fluff Just stuff for offering up a conference pass for the 9/14-9/16 New England Software Symposium.

Mark Johnson

President, NEJUG
email:markfjohnson@gmail.com



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