The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is ideally suited to running Java and Grails applications. It lets you develop using standard Java software packages such as Grails, Tomcat and MySQL and rapidly deploy applications on servers that are provisioned and managed via a web services API. You have access to as many servers as you need and simply pay by the hour. By using Amazon EC2, organizations of all sizes can reduce the risk of a success catastrophe, eliminate the upfront, capital expense of building a datacenter and reduce their operating expenses. Its a great technology to use in the current economic climate.

However, because it is a cloud, some aspects of Amazon EC2 are very different than a traditional, physical computing environment. In this half-day class, you will learn about those differences and how they impact how you handle security, networking, storage and availability. We describe how to use EC2 and the other Amazon web services to develop and deploy Java and Grails applications. You will learn how to use EC2 availability zones to deploy highly available applications. We also discuss how to architect secure applications for Amazon EC2.

Outline:

• Amazon-style cloud computing
• Amazon Web Services Deep-dive
• Using Amazon EC2
• Overview of Cloud Tools
• Developing on Amazon EC2
• Deploying on Amazon EC2
• Programming with AWS

Location:

• The event will take place in downtown Oakland just a few blocks from 12th street BART station.

Please contact us if you are interesting having this presentation delivered via webinar or onsite at your company.

Schedule:

• 8.30am-9am - networking and registration
• 9am-12pm - presentation and discussion

Prerequisites:

• Familiar with Java web application development; databases

About Chris Richardson

Chris Richardson is a developer, architect and mentor with over 20 years of experience and is the author of the book "POJOs in Action." He is the founder of the Cloud Tools open-source project and of Cloud Foundry, which provides automated, outsourced data center management for Java and Grails applications. He also runs a consulting and training company that helps customers reduce the cost of development and increase the effectiveness of their development teams.

His technical interests include domain-driven design, cloud computing and developer testing. Chris has been a technical leader at a variety of companies including Insignia Solutions and BEA Systems and recently became a Java Champion. Chris is the founder of Cloud Tools, which is an open-source project for quickly and easily deploying Java applications on Amazon EC2. He has spoken at various conferences including JavaOne 2006/2007/2008, No Fluff Just Stuff Java Symposiums, Colorado Software Summit, SD West, The Spring Experience, SpringOne, and Javapolis as well as Java user groups. Chris holds a computer science degree from the Cambridge University in England and lives in Oakland, CA where he runs the local Java User Group.