Monthly Archive for June, 2009

Special guest at the next meeting

There will be a special guest speaker at the June meeting! The topic will be “Building Highly Available systems from unreliable components” by Dennis Gerasimov.

The presentation will give a brief introduction to the concepts of availability, reliability, the use of redundancy and monitoring to improve the availability. An overview of hardware and network architecture for building highly availably systems will be followed by discussion of various methods to achieve high availability using open source software: Linux-HA for monitoring and fail over, several methods of achieving HA with Apache, MySQL replication and shared cluster storage.

See you then!

Vera Z-Wave and TODO apps

The first talk at CPLUG’s May meeting was presented by Rob, who discussed “Home Automation with the Vera Z-Wave controller”. After the break, Lon and Eric discussed the online TODO apps Remember the Milk and Hiveminder.

And don’t forget, you can check out the full list of previous meeting topics.

The next meeting will be on June 9, 2009. See you then!