Dear CHOOSE member,

Google (new Goldsponsor of Java User Group Switzerland) has teamed up with JUGS to invite you to a joint apero and networking evening at the Technopark, Zurich, on Tuesday 26 February.

The event will start at 5pm with an apero and opportunity for networking. Come and test your wits on the Google coding quiz and try out your pilot skills with the Google Earth flight simulator. Meet some Googlers, Jugs members and local Technopark informatics businesses, and pick up some goodies.

At 6.30pm Oliver Heckmann from Google will do a talk on 'How Google Scales to Million of Users'. Google services like search, Google Maps, Gmail are used by millions of users. At Google, programmers have access to a number of highly scalable backend services that are by design fundamentally different to what "the rest of the world" uses. This talk will shed some light on the most well-known 3 of these services: GFS, Bigtable and MapReduce. There will be an opportunity for questions after the talk.

From 7.30pm-9pm there'll be a further opportunity for networking and a drink, courtesy of Google and Jugs.ch.

Space is limited so please sign up early.

*Please bring your confirmation of registration email to gain entrance to the event.*

For queries feel free to contact mailto:europe-events@google.com

Please register online: http://www.jugs.ch/html/events/2008/how_google_scales.html?by=JUGS%20mailing#Formular.

Thanks.