24th November 2011 (24/11/2011)

Cloud Computing – An Introduction to Amazon Web Services (19:00 – 20:00) – Shaun Pearce
Individuals and companies of all sizes are starting to realise the power and flexibility of public clouds to quickly and easily stand up back-end infrastructure to support their products and services. Public cloud products such as Amazon Web Services have completely changed the way we look at backend infrastructure, AWS treats computing power as a “utility”, in other words paying for and using their servers should be no different from the way we consume other utilities such as gas or electricity.

So what does this all mean? Most importantly, it enables individual developers and small startups to have access to the scalable, robust and cost effective computing power previously only available to large multinational organisations, and with that brings a lot of opportunities.

This session will introduce the Amazon Web Services product suite and discuss how each of the components can be combined to create a robust, scalable and cost effective backend solution. I will also talk about how designing cloud based solutions requires a significant paradigm shift when compared to a traditional physical hosting setup. Finally, I’ll also draw on some of my experiences delivering a new AWS based solution on my current project pointing out both architecture best practice as well as some of the obvious pitfalls that have tripped us up alone the way!

Animating HTML5 (20:15 – 21:15) – Liam Flynn
Much discussion has occurred about capabilities of the <canvas> element within HTML5. However, it is not the only way that animation can be achieved using this standard. This session aims to investigate HTML5 in one of the main areas it encroaches upon the functionality of the Flash platform. It will introduce a range of graphical options, compare them and give some examples of their use. The entire session will be given from the perspective of a Flash developer new to web standards scripting.

Prizes for the free raffle
The Essential Guide to HTML5 –
Using Games to learn HTML5 and JavaScript
donated by Apress.

Hosted by Tag and sponsored by Apress.

When/Where
Date: 24th November 2011 (24/11/2011)
Time: 19:00 – 22:00 (doors open at 18:30)
Venue: Tag, 29 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1M 5TA
Tube: Farringdon/Barbican

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