Todd Ellermann
ÜberConf
Denver · June 19 - 22, 2012
VP of Engineering for VirtualTourist.com
Todd is a 15 year veteran of the Java development and has 4 years of professional Grails development experience. He is currently the V.P. of Engineering for VirtualTourist.com a TripAdvisor Media Group Company. In 2008, VirtualTourist.com was acquired by TripAdvisor/Expedia(EXPE), and Todd was brought in to lead a team of Java/Groovy/Grails engineers in the redevelopment effort. A graduate of the University of Arizona, with a B.S. in Computer Engineering, and an MBA from ASU with an emphasis on management of the creative software engineering process. When he is not actively writing code for his own startup ideas, you will find him entertaining his daughters or getting lost in a glass of wine, both of which usually lead to other crazy coding ideas like this one: “What would happen if I did a screencast of writing the same web application in eight different languages?” – www.betterwebapp.com
Presentations
Grails Grown Up: How do we get sub 500m/sec response?
How do you handle 9 million monthly unique visitors with Grails? Build pages using concurrency, SOLR, SQUID, and RESTful services on Grails, that's how!
Enterprise/Application Architecture a Case Study: Virtualtourist.com
Imagine you are the new CTO for virtualtourist.com and just been acquired by Tripadvisor. You are given 4 mid level software engineers 8 million monthly unique visitors, and the following running environment: No automated deployment, PHP batch jobs, PHP forum, Java servlet based home grown framework, WebObjects server talking to JBOSS EJB (Entity Beans {CMP}), and everyone writes and tests code on the “staging” server. Now what?