…servers, monitoring system, and backup systems. For a number of months Scott worked with Sean on setting up these systems, and he soon extended these efforts into creating whole applications that would support the software that we were building for our clients. PostageApp was dreamed up on our trip to Mexico in 2009 to solve the problem of sending application driven email for all of the social network tools and group buying systems we were building at the time. It's still going …
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…and meet some of the key members of TWG's future like Hesham, Sean and most importantly - Oleg and Scott.
Oleg had just rolled into Toronto after a computer science degree, and he somehow found one of our unique job posts online. Just one hour with him and it was clear that he was smart, was interested in building the same kinds of apps that we were, and that he'd be a great addition to the team. For two weeks, Oleg wore his business casual uniform to the office, until …
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Sean "The sexy one " Casey is an American professional wrestler who wrestles on the southeast independent circuit . he is known to prowl around the citys with lots of girls acting like he owns the place. he is very approachable with a little smugness he truly does live his gimmick.
Nothing is on Sean's bed.
Sean is gone.
THIS IS THE SADDEST.
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…Boston, connecting with our friends in the life sciences. At the same time, our own Sean O'Meara will be onsite at EucaDays in New York City, demonstrating Chef and chatting with Eucalyptus users.
That's just April! In May we'll be at InterOp in Las Vegas, making our mark at the largest technology expo in North America. Then of course, representing at our own conference # ChefConf, May 15th-17th. This is the one you won't want to miss! For more details …
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Opscode is pleased to announce we will be sponsoring the Enterprise Cloud Summit & exhibiting during the InterOp Expo at the Javits Center in New York City. Our Senior Technical Evangelist, Sean O'Meara, will take the stage during the Summit (October 3rd @ 4:10) to provide attendees with a quick introduction to Chef. Sean will also be on hand, Thursday, October 6th @ 4:40 in the InterOp Cloud Theater, to discuss Infrastructure as a Service. …
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Sean O'Halpin - Processing Tweets at the BBC
Sean O'Halpin couldn't make our December meeting due to illness, but he's fighting fit now and is going to give his talk this month instead. He'll be telling us about some work at the BBC involving twitter:
I'll be talking about how we're using Ruby to process tweets in realtime to discover inbound links to the BBC Zeitgeist and how we're reading the Twitter Firehose …
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Sean O'Halpin - Processing Tweets at the BBC
Sean O'Halpin is going to tell us about some work at the BBC involving twitter:
I'll be talking about how we're using Ruby to process tweets in realtime to discover inbound links to the BBC Zeitgeist and how we're reading the Twitter Firehose (about 1000 tweets/sec = about 90 million a day) and storing the data in Amazon S3.
There'll be a bit about Hadoop and …
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Sean grew up idyllic Carlsbad, California. "Crime was nearly unheard of, the beach was nearby. For many people it was paradise. Yet at times I felt like that small town kid that needed to get out and explore a big city." Now, Sean lives and works in and around D.C., arguably one of the coolest cities in the United States. As for Ruby's role in all of this, he says, "I'd still be writing Java XML configuration files in some backwater IT department if it weren't …
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…500px , Scott from PostageApp , and Sean from Nulogy . The panelists all have very different experiences with scaling, due to the nature of their products, so we had a lot of varied discussion on topics ranging from latency to databases to hosting providers. We also heard some horror stories, which are hilarious in hindsight, but we're sure weren't so funny when they were happening.
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