{"id":51460,"date":"2011-07-08T13:26:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T10:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/?p=51460"},"modified":"2021-03-12T04:10:32","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T01:10:32","slug":"altoros-organized-meetups-featuring-engine-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/altoros-organized-meetups-featuring-engine-yard\/","title":{"rendered":"Altoros Organized Meetups Featuring Engine Yard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_79_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/altoros-organized-meetups-featuring-engine-yard\/#Meetings_highlights\" >Meetings highlights<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/altoros-organized-meetups-featuring-engine-yard\/#Further_reading\" >Further reading<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Meetings_highlights\"><\/span>Meetings highlights<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>During June 8\u20139, 2011 Altoros organized two conferences that featured guest speakers from Engine Yard, the leading developer of cloud platforms for Ruby on Rails.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/randall-j-thomas\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Randall Thomas<\/a>, Business Development Director at Engine Yard, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/wilson-bilkovich-3566301\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Wilson Bilkovich<\/a>, Ruby Technologist for Engine Yard, presented JRuby and the latest Engine Yard\u2019s cloud solutions to Belarusian Java and Ruby-on-Rails developers. The discussions were held using video conferencing services, while other speakers opened the events locally.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/user-group-blog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-51461\" \/><\/a><small>Sergey Bushik, Altoros<\/small><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Our Ruby-on-Rails and Java colleagues have also actively participated in the events. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sergey-bushik-19968525\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Sergey Bushik<\/a>, a Senior Java Developer at Altoros, delivered a presentation called \u201cOpening a Fabulous World of Cassandra.\u201d Sergey elaborated on the NoSQL concept, the key-value paradigm, column-oriented systems, and Cassandra integration with Hadoop.<\/p>\n<p>We are very grateful to all of the speakers for finding time in their busy schedules to talk to Java and Ruby-on-Rails experts and enthusiasts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Further_reading\"><\/span>Further reading<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/ruby-on-rails-course-at-altoros-graduation\/\">Altoros Became a Sponsor of RubyConf 2012 in Argentina<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/ruby-open-air-knowledge-sharing-brings-much-fun\/\">RoR Talent Fair: Altoros Helped Ruby-inspired Developers and Companies Meet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/play-vs-grails-which-one-is-better-than-ruby-on-rails\/\">RubyConf Argentina: Altoros Held a Contest for Rails Fans<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr\/>\n<p><center><small>The post was written by <strong>Ekaterina Vasilega<\/strong> and edited by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/author\/alex\/\">Alex Khizhniak<\/a>.<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meetings highlights<\/p>\n<p>During June 8\u20139, 2011 Altoros organized two conferences that featured guest speakers from Engine Yard, the leading developer of cloud platforms for Ruby on Rails.<\/p>\n<p>Randall Thomas, Business Development Director at Engine Yard, and Wilson Bilkovich, Ruby Technologist for Engine Yard, presented JRuby and the latest Engine Yard\u2019s cloud solutions [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":51461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[895],"class_list":["post-51460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-opinion","tag-research-and-development"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Altoros Organized Meetups Featuring Engine Yard | Altoros<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"During two conferences, JRuby and the latest Engine Yard\u2019s cloud solutions were presented to Java and Ruby-on-Rails developers.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/altoros-organized-meetups-featuring-engine-yard\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Altoros Organized Meetups Featuring Engine Yard | Altoros\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Meetings highlights During June 8\u20139, 2011 Altoros organized two conferences that featured guest speakers from Engine Yard, the leading developer of cloud platforms for Ruby on Rails. 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