The Greater Detroit Cloud Computing Users Group presents...

Gaelyk on Google App Engine with Mac Liaw.

When: Monday, April 4, 2011 at 6:30pm
Where: Flagstar Corporate Headquarters
5151 Corporate Drive,Troy, MI 48098

Gaelyk on Google App Engine

Most of us have had to face the challenge of delivering products at the right scale with the right level of resources. A lot of work goes into estimating the needs of the stack. All of us at one time or another have thought, “Why can’t this all be done automatically for me so I can focus on the product?”

Wouldn’t it be great if you can develop a web application by using a dynamic language (Groovy) with an easy to use template system (Groovy Template)? It needs to be backed by a solid NOSQL system (Google BigTable), have dedicated caching system that’s not tied to each application server (memcached), and you can deploy it to an application server (Jetty) using well understood packaging format (WAR). It of couse needs to handle running multiple versions of the application, and have the application server automatically spin up/down instances as needed. It should have a good url routing system for both human and SEO friendly urls, support Comet (Channel), a messaging system, a URL fetching system to build your own bots, a high speed email delivery system that has very little issues with false positive spam check, and a high performance image processing/delivery system. All of this should be wrapped up in an easy to use DSL and can handle being Digged or Slashedoted.

Oh and please make my first 5 million page views free. Doing startup is hard enough, we don’t have money.

Come see Gaelyk on Google App Engine.

About Mac Liaw

Mac Liaw entered The Ohio State University's Masters Program in Computer Science at age 15. He was a member of the CERN development team that established HTTP and HTML. He is active in the Linux Kernel, Groovy development and Haskell open source project. Currently he is CylaTech.com Inc’s VP of Technology and has been involved in video games development since Playstation 2 and Xbox. He currently oversees PS3 and 360 video games development and special effects projects at CylaTech.com Inc. He also serves as the CTO of Worthpoint Corp,  an antiques and collectible focused website using Grails and GWT.