Surge [1] is scalability focused conference in late September hosted in Baltimore. It's a pretty cool conference with a good mix of operationally minded people interested in scalability, distributed systems, systems level performance and good stuff like that. You should go! [2]
For those of you who like historical trivia Mike Malone gave a well recieved Cassandra talk at the first SurgeCon in 2010 [3]. This year there is organised room for BoF's and such with several one-hour slots Wednesday and Thursday evenings, between 9 p.m. and midnight for BoFs. Last year a few of us got together informally around lunch time [4]. Interested in getting together again this year? Think we have critical mass for a BoF? [1] http://omniti.com/surge/2012 [2] http://omniti.com/surge/2012/register [3] http://omniti.com/surge/2010/speakers/mike-malone [4] http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/cassandra-user/201109.mbox/%3c4e82140a.5070...@gmail.com%3E
