Meet with other engineers responsible for the reliability, scalability and efficient operation of large scale systems. Sessions will typically involve a free technical presentation and open forum to ask questions.  Target Audience:  Engineers & Sys Admin's who are interested in topics such as scalability, monitoring, troubleshooting,  solving tough web operations issues, Unix/Linux, LAMP and automation. See a video introduction to the group here:  http://bit.ly/c59MWE Follow us on Twitter …

svDevOps (Silicon Valley DevOps) is a group of both Dev & Ops professionals (managers, engineers & hackers) and entrepreneurs that meets roughly once per month to discuss topics related to DevOps and whatever it means. Topics that seem to interest us are: - improving the working relationship between dev & ops - constraints within operations and dev within regulated environments - helping developers get visibility into monitoring - systems life-cycle automation (the line between systems & apps …

Sharing information about all things software test: - techniques & tools - experience reports - guest speakers - networking & job opportunities - Conference & Workshop news - book & course recommendations

Meet other developers who enjoy the agility and quality in writing automated tests. Come and hear experts demonstrate new tools and techniques. Participate in discussions on how to solve particular challenges. We target developers and expect to span both introductory and advanced subjects, including: Experience exchange, Q&A Web UI testing using Selenium or WatiN Testing embedded software Test Driven Development Behaviour Driven Development When to use stubs and mocks Google Test (C++ testing f …

The San José Selenium Meetup aims to provide a cozy environment in which to enjoy food and drink while discussing our Selenium successes and challenges with each other. A wide array of speakers will appear, from your peers to well-recognized Selenium experts. All in downtown San Jose!!! You can attend in person OR remotely via Adobe Connect. Or you can watch a presentation anytime from the next day onwards via the unique Adobe Connect URL which will always be posted as a Comment at the bottom of …

There's a lot of discussion about SDN and what it means. Hype, tool, or folly. Let's get together and discuss what's real, what's necessary, and what's not.

This is an approximately monthly meetup for people who are into drinking beer and interested in discussing the current trends in Technical Ops & DevOps. We support web-scale production infrastructure for startups or other organizations and are concerned with stuff like network monitoring systems, cloud computing, configuration management, change management, virtualization and nerf warfare with the Engineering team.

This group is for bringing together virtual switching, software defined networking, OpenFlow, openvswitch, VXLAN professionals & entrepreneurs together. Follow us on twitter @nvirters

#LSPE Meet-up has been an invaluable platform for engineers responsible for the reliability, scalability and efficient operation of large scale systems! LSPE-W is a much awaited extension of #LSPE providing a collaborative network and learning platform for women in technology. Our Vision: Build a vision for women in technology, and spotlighting thought leaders within the industry Provide problem solving for issues and challenges in Highly Scalable Environments Create a platform that would allow …

Salesforce.com Integration & Analytics is a San Francisco meetup for Salesforce.com users, administrators, Force.com developers, sales and marketing professionals, and others interested in extending the Salesforce platform. Topics will include: data integration dashboards analytics reporting sales force automation (SFA) marketing optimization using 3rd party data integrated into Salesforce business intelligence (BI) and more This meetup is not an official Salesforce.com event, but we are all …

Learn from and meet with other developers, devops and QA professionals that use JMeter to test web apps.   JMeter User's group is an open forum where JMeter and even Selenium users from all levels (beginner, intermediate, afficianados) can interact, network and share insights and information. Topics include JMeter, Selenium, scripting, performance, load and stress testing, test-driven development, continuous integration, building automated test scripts and other topics. Feel free to request and …

Apply software development principles to dwelling environments and optimize/re-invent live-work processes - start at futureLiving.info Imagine your very own multi-purpose dwelling environment that adjusts to your needs throughout the day and over the course of your life, inspires you to fully unfold your potential and effectively works to maximize your well-being/performance. Join the international community to create, build and own the open-source modular, extendable, mobile, service-based arch …

There are many people in the San Francisco Bay Area interested in the quickly emerging field of robotics. Whether you work on robots full time, part time, as a hobby, or are interested in getting involved with robots, this group is for you! We are trying to develop a strong community dedicated to moving the robotics industry forward by bringing the best robotics minds in the area together to network, brainstorm, collaborate, and take real action to execute our ideas and visions.

The purpose of this group is marry the worlds of technology and residential real estate into one. Oftentimes, real estate professionals and customers are unaware of which new technologies exist to make their lives easier.  On the flip side, there are lots of technology gurus who want to learn more about real estate and how it works.  Our goal is to bring people from both worlds into one group so that everyone can learn from each other about something new. This group is perfect for real estate ag …

This is a spin-off of the Bay Area Software Quality Group which has stagnated over the past several months. The purpose of this group is to discuss all things regarding software quality engineering. This includes automation, unit testing, exploratory testing, load/performance testing and any other type of testing strategy that comes up. Although this group is centered on test engineers, there should be plenty of valuable data for others within the software development ecosystem.

This Group will bring software people together to share ideas and experience in the domain of Continuous Delivery. Continuous Delivery addresses the entire software delivery pipeline - from CI to testing to deployment to release - and addresses technology, process and organization. Anything within that domain will be in scope for our Group. The Group shares concerns with other Groups in the Bay area - DevOps, Agile,Puppet/Chef, Cloud, Selenium, etc. - and will be complementary to them. But we'll …

The Cisco Users Group of Silicon Valley meets once a month to discuss products, services, and technologies to simplify network management with Cisco Prime products for enterprise and service providers. Cisco is truly dedicated to customer success. Our mission is to shape the future of the Internet by creating unprecedented value and opportunity for our customers, partners, shareholders, and employees. Built for the human network. Disclaimer: The Cisco Users Group of Silicon Valley is an independ …

Hello! This is a group for IT and Network security professionals in the US SouthWest (CA, AZ, NV, NM, TX, UT) to network and keep apprised of current security issues, threats, solutions etc. Feel free to post educational webinars, local events or other shindigs. Please keep all discussions and meetings to IT and network security related topics.

Let's use technology to live 'bright green' lives! This group is for sharing tools to live more sustainably, including but not limited to: -growing more food on less land through permaculture design -using low-cost electronics to automate your garden -building 'shared ownership' systems to pool resources All skill levels are welcome; just be ready to learn and share!

Sometimes you need to get together, drink beer, and talk shop.

This is a group for anyone interested in the Tomcat Container. All skills levels are welcome. I manage a Tomcat based product and started this group to meet other Tomcat enthusiasts. Looking forward to exploring Tomcat with everybody

Hello and Welcome to CodeChix-BayArea!! Please join us here and on any of our social media (FB, G+, LinkedIn, Twitter) if you are a: Female developer (please join us also on http://groupspaces.com/codechix) Female or Male Project/Program/Product Manager Supportive and open-minded MALE developer Young person (>8 years old) aspiring to learn coding NO RECRUITERS OR RECRUITING ALLOWED. NO SOLICITATIONS For Personal or Business needs. And now a little bit about us (also check out our Skill-Levels …

We are Access/Excel users and developers and are looking to spread the word about how some fancy tricks in Microsoft Excel (VBA Functions, automation) and a few power user procedures Microsoft Access can improve your work performance, take a load off your mind, fingers and eyes and turn nightmares into dreams with the click of a mouse. We will have free lessons and discussion about solutions.  It's a great way to network with other data professionals and learn how to use some of the advanced fun …

A group for those interested in learning actionable best practices for improving startup operations. We cover a diverse range of topics, including startup accounting, cash management, runway management, budgeting, tax compliance, legal issues, equity agreements, banking management, business insurance, employee benefits, people management, vendor relations, investor relations, business process automation, lean startup methodologies, operations technology, and much more. Any startup founder who is …

This is a group for anyone interested in Contributing to the OCP Storage Community by: - Join the OCP Storage project, read the specs, offer comments and suggestions on the specs, help shape the direction of a spec as it is developing. - Feed ideas for new projects to the incubation committee. - Test out a prototype design. - Contribute a hardware or software prototype to a project.

Rapid SaaS (formerly Dane Maxwell's Entrepreneurs and Advocates) brings together like minded entrepreneurs committed to get out of the rat race by launching a Software as a Service business that accumulates predictable and automated revenue. For those who understand the profit potential of SaaS but need help starting, we provide a powerful platform and support group One of our goals is to demystify SaaS and web based businesses. If you thought you needed tons of money, a technical background, o …

We're a group of folk broadly interested in the application of data science and sustainability, discussing questions like: what data feeds can improve supply chain sustainability? what algorithms should be applied to water conservation? what challenges of scale lie behind automated energy efficiency? what can be learnt from quantitative finance, search, and other related fields? We meet on the first Thursday of every month at EcoFactor's offices in Redwood City.

Meet other developers and ops engineers using Docker. Docker is an open-source engine for building and deploying cloud applications as standalone containers which can run on any server - from the VM on your laptop to the largest EC2 compute instance, and everything in between. Docker is a great building block for deploying web apps, database services, service-oriented architectures, and so on.