Zürich Tech Talks

New Relic Techtalk by @chregu

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:52:13 +0200

Christian Stocker shows what New Relic can (and already did) offer to some of Liip’s projects.

Recorded at the Liip Zürich office (@liip).

Responsive Design by @shvi

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 08:08:00 +0100

Pierre founder of nelm.io is talking about what there is behind the term «responsive design» and how one can create mobile website quite easily if one adheres to a few simple rules. He then goes through some interesting demo examples and talks about the nuggets of wisdom he picked up while building websites for mobile.

Recorded at a @webtuesday meetup at @liip.

Thanks Pierre for letting me tape your talk.

Cloudfoundry on top of OpenStack - ICCLab

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:30:25 +0100

Christof Marti from the ICCLab is giving a talk on how to run Cloudfoundry the open source PaaS on top of an Openstack cloud.

Recorded by switch at the @OpenStackCH meetup hosted by switch

Talk: Flash, Quicktime

Openstack on Openstack at Rackspace

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:30:29 +0100

Paul Voccio from Rackspace is explaining to the Zurich Openstack crowd on how they test Openstack at Rackspace by running it on top of their first Openstack cloud like Matryoshka dolls.

Recorded by switch at the @OpenStackCH meetup hosted by switch.

Talk: Flash, Quicktime

From websites to mobile apps - a journey @JSZurich

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:30:32 +0100

Martin Naumann is giving an overview of what websites used to be like and what they can be nowadays.

He is also presenting his own lungo-angular-bridge project which is one of the new building blocks when building mobile javascript applications.

Recorded at the @jszurich meetup hosted by @centralway.

Thanks to @AVGP and @centralway for publishing the talk.

Local.ch - The First Year on Rails

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:20:42 +0100

local.ch went live with Rails in March 2012. As with any new technology stack, handling high traffic, not everything went smoothly. Jeremy Seitz, lead engineer on the local.ch website, shares stories, experiences and lessons learned on bringing one of the most popular websites in Switzerland to Rails.

Recorded at the @webtuesday meetup @localch.

Thanks to Jeremy for letting me tape this talk.

Introduction to Puppet @webtuesday

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:59:47 +0100

David Gubler from Doodle gives a short introduction to the Server Orchestration Tool Puppet and shows how they use it at Doodle to keep their servers in order.

Recorded at the @webtuesday Meetup at @centralway.

Thanks to David for letting me tape his talk.

Cloud Foundry Bootcamp @zhgeeks

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 08:45:00 +0100

Alvaro Videla from Cloud Foundry gives an overview of what Cloud Foundry is and what it solves. Then shows some code for his super webscale Cloudstagram Project which he built using Node.js, Clojure and RabbitMQ.

Recorded at a @zhgeeks Meetup in Zürich, hosted by Switch.

Thanks to Alvaro for letting me tape his talk.

Links: Cloudstagram on Cloudfoundry - Slides

Big Data Use-Cases across industries @SwissBigData

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:11:00 +0100

Georg Polzer from Teralytics explains how different sectors and industries can leverage data, they might already collect or is easy for them to come by to help them answer almost any question they come up with.

Recorded at the third SwissBigData Usergroup Meetup in Zürich.

Thanks to the @SwissBigData organizers and Georg Polzer for letting me tape this talk.

Three.js @JSZurich

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 09:05:00 +0100

Right before Christmas Dominique Sandoz gave a talk about three.js a JavaScript 3D library at the local @JSZurich Meetup. In the talk he live codes an example and shows what’s possible today in terms of animation and audio/video interoperability by just using a browser.

Recorded at @JSZurich by @Centralway.

The code used during the talk is on github streunerlein/jsz-threejs.

An introduction to Cloudera Impala - SQL on top of Hadoop

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 18:17:23 +0100

James Kinley gives an introduction to Cloudera Impala. Cloudera Impala provides fast, interactive SQL queries directly on your Apache Hadoop data stored in HDFS or HBase. In addition to using the same unified storage platform, Impala also uses the same metadata, SQL syntax (Hive SQL), ODBC driver and user interface (Hue Beeswax) as Apache Hive. This provides a familiar and unified platform for batch-oriented or real-time queries.

Recorded at the fourth SwissBigData Usergroup Meetup in Zürich.

Thanks to the @SwissBigData organizers and James Kinley for letting me tape this talk.

Automated conflict resolution enabling masterless data distribution

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:26:00 +0200

Rune Skou Larsen from Trifork talks about Automated conflict resolution in large database applications to enable masterless data distribution at the third SwissBigData Usergroup Meetup in Zürich.

Thanks to the @SwissBigData organizers and Rune Skov Larsen for letting me tape this talk.

Btw. I’m sorry for the poor audio quality it get’s better at about a 60 seconds in.

Vert.x an event-driven application framework for the JVM

Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:20:00 +0200

Alvaro is demoing Vert.x to show when/why/how it can be the choice to power your next web application.

Vert.x is currently working with Ruby, Java, Groovy, Javascript and Python. It understands concurrency and can fully utilize your multicore servers CPUs.

Special Thanks to Doodle for hosting webtuesday (@webtuesday) this time.

Stream Processing with Kafka

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:42:44 +0200

Christian Gügi from Sentric talks about Stream Processing with Kafka at the third SwissBigData Usergroup Meetup in Zürich.

Thanks to the @SwissBigData organizers and Christian Gügi for letting me tape this talk.

360° Langstrasse

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:38:00 +0200

Severin Klaus (@betabong) on http://360langstrasse.sf.tv - deep tech insights on how to build interactive StreetView-style UIs - talk held at Webtuesday August 14th in Zürich.

Additional resources: http://go.hinderlingvolkart.com/slides/webtuesday/

Video recorded by Remo Pini. Edited by Philipp Küng.

Big Graph Data Processing at @SwissBigData

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:42:48 +0200

Prof. Abraham Bernstein from the University of Zurich gave a talk about Big Graph Data Processing at the second SwissBigData Usergroup Meetup in Zürich.

More about the SwissBigData Usergroup and their events can be found on http://www.bigdata-usergroup.ch or via twitter @SwissBigData

Thanks to the @SwissBigData organizers and Prof. Abraham Bernstein for letting me tape this talk.

Analyzing Logs/Configs of 200'000 Systems with Hadoop at @SwissBigData

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:40:07 +0200

Christoph Schnidrig from NetApp gave a talk about “Analyzing Logs/Configs of 200’000 Systems with Hadoop” at the second SwissBigData Usergroup Meetup in Zürich.

More about the SwissBigData Usergroup and their events can be found on http://www.bigdata-usergroup.ch or via twitter @SwissBigData

Thanks to the @SwissBigData organizers and the Christoph Schnidrig for letting me tape this talk.

Large Scale Log Analysis with HBase and Solr at Amadeus at @SwissBigData

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:36:50 +0200

Martin Alig from ETH Zürich gave a talk about “Large Scale Log Analysis with HBase and Solr at Amadeus” at the second SwissBigData Usergroup Meetup in Zürich.

More about the SwissBigData Usergroup and their events can be found on http://www.bigdata-usergroup.ch or via twitter @SwissBigData

Thanks to the @SwissBigData organizers and Martin Alig for letting me tape this talk.

[DE] - Open Data in der Praxis

Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:28:41 +0200

Philipp Küng (@philippkueng), Informatik-Student spricht zum Thema Open Data in der Praxis anhand der @trainshare App.

Diese Aufnahme, aufgenommen durch @AdrianKuendig, entstand an der OpenData.ch Konferenz 2012 in Zürich.

[DE] - Das gilt es rechtlich zu beachten bei OpenData Anwendungen und Publikationen

Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:20:48 +0200

Christian Laux, Laux Lawyers, Vorstand Opendata.ch spricht zum Thema: Das gilt es rechtlich bei der Erstellung von Mobilitäts-Anwendungen und bei Datenpublikation zu beachten.

Diese Aufnahme entstand an der OpenData.ch Konferenz 2012 in Zürich