Optaros Bucharest

You can check out the blog post from our first Christmas party here.

This autumn, the Optaros Bucharest team attended its second career fair of 2011. Angajatori de Top is the most well-known local job fair; all the major players of the market have a presence here.

Read more about our participation in the April 2011 fair here.

I've just returned from DrupalCon 2011, the annual official conference about Drupal. With over 1700 geeks, great sessions, great parties and great ideas, it was a blast.  

All the internet is buzzing – Google has launched yesterday the official Facebook competitor – Google Plus. Even though one already existed – argh, Orkut, that wasn’t a big of a competition for Facebook. But Google+ (Plus) looks like it is. It’s biggest promise as far as I can tell is fixing the weird privacy settings (or even better, lack of) Facebook is having.

I might have mentioned in a tweet or two about Optaros being present at DrupalCamp Bucharest 2011 in early May. I had a presentation there about using Drupal + Page Syndication module to create a content marketing platform. Well, here’s the presentation:

Earlier today Magento announced they’ve been bought by eBay, see http://www.magentocommerce.com/blog/comments/ebay-agrees-to-acquire-magento/.

What does it mean for us the regular Developers working with Magento? Will Magento continue amazing jurney they had already with open source edition? What about enterprise? What about Go?

Often I had to answer, for my self or when others asked me, if the application that I’ve build was able to handle the expected traffic. This is not so difficult to calculate and I’ll try to describe it in this post.

I really don’t want to be in the shoes of the guys over at AWS NOC – this is not a good day for them. Some of the Amazon Web Services hosted in the US-EAST zone are affected (as of the time this article has been written) due to an issue related to EBS re-mirroring. We have experienced a similar issue on Saturday, when connection to an RDS instance kept timing out – we then concluded that it was caused by a network issue inside AWS. That only lasted for about 15 minutes, but it could have been a warning sign of a bigger problem arising. I’m sorry to say, but it was.

Last week I presented the Drupal CMIS module at the Drupal Government Days conference in Brussels. For anyone interested, CMIS is a standard which allows you to interact with content repositories. This is very important for large Enterprises or Government Agencies, because of their security requirements, that want to use a much better interface for their repository. So how do you get Drupal to “talk” to these repositories ?

Optaros SRL just finished up a weekend participating in the Angajatori de Top career fair and it was, overall a great experience. This was our first time participating in a job fair locally and, particularly for the lone American in the group, it was a very interesting and eye-opening couple of days.