Presentations from Wordnik CTO Tony Tam & uSamp's Andrew Hall

 

A look inside Wordnik's architecture

Wordnik CTO Tony Tam will discuss details of how Wordnik runs it's software stack on EC2 with focus on their MongoDB data tier. He will cover multi-zone deployments and how to handle the performance limitations of a virtualized environment.

Tony Tam is the Chief Technical Officer and technical co-founder of Wordnik, where he leads development... [read more]

 

A look inside Wordnik's architecture

Wordnik CTO Tony Tam will discuss details of how Wordnik runs it's software stack on EC2 with focus on their MongoDB data tier. He will cover multi-zone deployments and how to handle the performance limitations of a virtualized environment.

Tony Tam is the Chief Technical Officer and technical co-founder of Wordnik, where he leads development efforts of the site's innovative word navigation system. He is a member of the MongoDB Masters group and has led the Swagger API Framework open-source initiative. Prior to joining Wordnik, he was a founder and SVP of Engineering at Think Passenger, a provider of customer collaboration software.

Before that, he was lead engineer at Composite Software where he helped develop the company's first- and second-generation query processing engines and led the research and implementation of their patented cost-based federated query optimizer. He also led software development in the bioinformatics group at Galileo Labs, a drug-discovery company based in the Silicon Valley. Tony received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from UC Santa Barbara and his MBA from Santa Clara University. He can be reached at tony@wordnik.com.

Company Links:

Wordnik (company homepage)
Tony Tam (@fehguy) on twitter
@wordnik on twitter
Tony Tam (@fehguy) on github
Tony on LinkedIn

 

MongoDB & uSamp's SurveyBuilder : A document-oriented approach to survey authoring and reporting

Andrew Hall will detail how uSampTM built their survey authoring platform â€

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