Presentations about SmartFrog and related topics

Here are some of the popular presentations about SmartFrog 

Overview

• Taming deployment with SmartFrog. Presented at O'Reilly OSCON Europe in 2005.

• Farms Fabrics and Clouds. This presentation from December 2007 does not look at SmartFrog itself, but at the architecture of server-side applications, and how changes in server farm design and algorithms changes a lot of assumptions. Updated November 2008.

• Avalanche. Avalanche is an application built on SmartFrog, that lets you deploy SmartFrog or other applications across a farm of machines.

Cloud Computing

• Architectures for the cloud This presentation looks at the hardware and software issues for building the infrastructure of "the cloud". Apache Europe 09.

• Dynamic Hadoop Clusters This presentation looks at the challenges of bringing up Hadoop clusters on dynamically allocated server ?real or virtual. Apache Europe 09.

• Farms Fabrics and Clouds On how application architectures and deployment changes in the cloud.

• Hadoop and beyond Introduction to Hadoop and what we are doing with SmartFrog to deploy and manage it. It also contains our first intro to our new proposal "Java Cloud Computing Edition". Sep 08.

Testing

Distributed Testing with SmartFrog

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Presented at Google London Test Automation Conference 06. This talk shows how to use SmartFrog as a test runner, deploying the application server, the database and tests, collecting and collating the results. This is how we test SmartFrog! You can use a distributed deployment framework for deploying and running its own test suite!

Beyond Unit Testing

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Presented at ApacheCon Europe 2006. This presentation is a predecessor of the Google LTAC talk; it covers the whole swathe of functional testing technologies available for Java programs, including Cargo, Cactus and Selenium, as well as using SmartFrog as a test runner.

Introduction to Testing

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This is presentation targeted at university CS students, to introduce the whole notion of testing as way of ensuring your code is ready to ship. It doesn't go into that much detail on functional testing at all, merely looks at the benefits for having tests in your code.