David Zuelke
Bitextender GmbH
David Zuelke is the lead developer of the Agavi project, an open source MVC framework for PHP, and managing director at Bitextender GmbH, a Munich, Germany based software consulting and engineering company. He's been doing PHP development for around ten years and spoken at various conferences and events, but despite this never seems to find the time to write about things that are actually related to PHP development over at http://blog.wombert.de/.
An Introduction to MapReduce View session page
English session
The MapReduce framework promises to make computing of large sets of data very easy. An original approach, it offers excellent scalability across many computing nodes, and can easily be integrated with existing systems. This session will give an introduction to the basic techniques and ideas behind MapReduce, followed by hands-on examples using Apache Hadoop, a major implementation of MapReduce, including Hadoop's streaming functionality that allows users to write mapper and reducer tasks in PHP, Python or Ruby.
Sustainable architectures with the Agavi framework View session page
English session
Now in its fifth year of development, the Agavi MVC framework offers a number of unique architectural features that make it a good choice in particular for service-oriented systems and large-scale applications. This talk will give an overview of the framework, and some of the approaches it takes to help small and big teams alike achieve their goals while maintaining a clean, structured code base.
