#zhgeeks

[Alvaro Videla](http://twitter.com/old_sound) from [Cloud Foundry](http://cloudfoundry.org) gives an overview of what Cloud Foundry is and what it solves. Then shows some code for his super webscale Cloudstagram Project which he built using Node.js, Clojure and RabbitMQ. Recorded at a [@zhgeeks](https://twitter.com/zhgeeks) Meetup in Zürich, hosted by [Switch](http://www.switch.ch). Thanks to Alvaro for letting me tape his talk. **Links:** [Cloudstagram on Cloudfoundry](http://cloudstagram.cloudfoundry.com) - [Slides](http://www.slideshare.net/old_sound/cloud-foundry-bootcamp-15287899)

Guido van Rossum ([@gvanrossum](https://twitter.com/gvanrossum), [G+](https://plus.google.com/115212051037621986145/posts)) the inventor of the [Python programming language](http://python.org/) came to town and volunteered to give a talk to the @zhgeeks crowd, titled "Not the state of the Python union". Meetup page: http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/72025322/ Thanks to Muharem ([@al_maisan](https://twitter.com/al_maisan)) for organizing the event.

Peter Ledbrook ([pledbrook](http://twitter.com/pledbrook)) gave a talk about Groovy & Grails at the [zhgeeks](http://twitter.com/zhgeeks) [meetup](http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/68808862/). Groovy is an agile and dynamic language for the JVM, building upon the strengths of Java but with additional features inspired by Python, Ruby and Smalltalk. Grails is a dynamic, agile web development without compromises and the premier dynamic language web framework for the JVM. Thanks to Muharem ([al_maisan](https://twitter.com/al_maisan)) for organizing, recording and providing the video to us.

Ross Lawley ([@RossC0](http://twitter.com/RossC0)) from [10gen](http://www.10gen.com) gave an introductory talk to MongoDB at the last [@zhgeeks](http://twitter.com/zhgeeks) [meetup](http://www.meetup.com/zhgeeks/events/67513182/). He was especially focusing on scaling, high availability and advanced querying.

Craig Kerstiens ([@craigkerstiens](http://twitter.com/craigkerstiens)) and Kenneth Reitz ([@kennethreitz](http://twitter.com/kennethreitz)) give a short introduction to Heroku and its capabilities to the Zürich developer community and then show some best practices when working in a cloud environment.