Date:    Sep 09/28/15 6:16 AM
Subject: NEJUG Meeting ( Thu, Oct 8): Application Performance Management (APM) - Coping with Complexity of Complex and Large Scale Deployments
From:    Stevel Lintz


The next general meeting of the NEJUG is coming up in about two weeks and you are very welcome to attend.
All you need to do is register then show up for the meeting, relax and absorb. Come by a bit early,
and you'll have time for pizza and sodas - fully sponsored by Constant Contact (who also provide our excellent meeting facility).


Title: Application Performance Management (APM) - Coping with Complexity of Complex and Large Scale Deployments

Presenter:  Rob Ide
Location:  Constant Contact

Date: Thu, Oct 8


Register now to reserve your seat


Presentation Overview:

Monitoring and Management of application deployments that use modern frameworks and large scale distributed environments.
This presentation focusses on using the AppDynamics APM solution in the full product development lifecycle
to diagnose performance and behavioral issues in a large scale event driven environments that also use Map/Reduce tool sets.
Heavily distributed environments create a unique set of challenges and opportunities for development team, tools like AppDynamics
allow teams to learn how their solutions live and breath in this new world of complexity and quickly identify performance issue down
to the code level. We also look at the telemetry of an application and approaches for extracting meaningful data from transaction
flow of your applications.


Speaker Background:

Rob Ide is Senior Solution Architect with AppDynamics with 20 years of experience working as a resident consultant at some of
the largest financial services organization in the world, including JP Morgan Chase, HSBC, and Credit Suisse. His speciality is
High Performance Computing and he is also a certified SpringSource Developer, certified Scrum Master, and expert at leading Agile initiatives.

Register now to reserve your seat

This month we'll be following our standard "90 Minute Full Presentation" format, as outlined here:


5:00 - Doors open for pre-meeting socializing (and seat claiming)
5:30 - Pizza, enough for two slices per person
6:00 - Start of Meeting (*)
       Welcome and NEJUG Announcements
6:10 - Announcements from the floor
         > upcoming events, e.g. workshops, meetings, space launches
         > job announcements - real jobs from real people (not head-hunter trolling)
6:20 - Lightning Talk
6:30 - Main Speaker (part 1)
7:15 - Break
7:30 - Main Speaker (part 2)
8:15 - Wrap Up & Q/A
8:45 - Adjourn - Clean Up & Get Out (*)

(*) All but the start and end times are approximate, depending on the flow of the meeting.


We look forward to seeing you on Thu, Oct 8.


Stevel Lintz
NEJUG President