making conferences work

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Definitive databaseof professional events

and speakers

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Social event recommendationComprehensive speaker profiles

Archive of slides, notes and video

Definitive databaseof professional events

and speakers

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Demo

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Why does it work?•The right crowdsourcing incentives

•Wiki-style shared ownership

•The parts support the whole

•Twitter!

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Why Twitter?•It’s where the event discussion happens

•Speakers promote their Twitter accounts

•Follow beats Friend for recommendations

•Culturally amenable to public profiles

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Twitter as an Identity Platform

•Make assertions about any Twitter user

•Create profiles to be claimed later

•Instant personalisation

•Naturally viral

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More demos

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Under the hood

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Calendar•Pull user’s friends/ids.json

•Cache for ten hours

•Store in Redis

•Solr search: attendees:(34722 OR 1312313 OR...

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Redis set intersection

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users/search.json

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friendships/create

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Load balancer (nginx)

HTTP cache (varnish)

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app server(Django/Apache)

app server(Django/Apache)

app server(Django/Apache)

search server(solr master)

search server(solr slave)

search server(solr slave)

Database(MySQL RDS)

K/V store(redis)

background processing

(celery and cron)

caching(memcache)

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@lanyrd attending #devnest

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We’re hiring!(soon)

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