16 Sept : The Busy Java Developer's Guide to Performance and Scalability 
Note : This month's speaker is being facilitated by the folks who run the
NoFluffJustStuff conference which is going to be hitting Seattle on the weekend after the meeting. Some lucky audience member will get a free pass to the conference ( worth $995/-) at the meeting.
Presentation
Wondering why your enterprise Java app just… sucks? Trying to figure out why you can't get more than 10 concurrent users online at the same time? Looking for ways to try and spot the slowdowns and ways to fix them?
In this talk, we'll look at the various things that can occur in an enterprise Java app (from the smallest web site to the largest multi-resource environment) to make your Java apps perform and scale less well than they should, and how you can work to correct them. We'll examine a variety of broad concepts to apply in architecture and design, and examine what factors make an enterprise application slow, then use a variety of tools to figure out how to remedy them.
Speaker Bio
Ted Neward is an independent consultant specializing in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 20-person shops. He speaks on the conference circuit, including the No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium tour, discussing Java, .NET and XML service technologies, focusing on Java-.NET interoperability. He has written several widely-recognized books in both the Java and .NET space, including the recently-released "Effective Enterprise Java". He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, two sons, four video-game consoles, thousands of books (on programming and otherwise), and eight PCs.
