Surge — A Scalability & Performance Conference, presented by OmniTI.

Surge 2010 Keynote & Speaker List

Discussing Scalability Matters…

…because scalability matters. Surge is more than an event, it's a chance to identify emerging trends and meet the architects behind established technologies. Learn from their mistakes and see how their victories can power your business forward.

Benjamin Black Speaker

Benjamin Black Founder, fast_ip

Mr. Black is a recognized expert in large-scale technology infrastructure design, implementation, and operation. He was an engineering director in the ECN group at Microsoft Windows Live, where he helped build one of the largest content delivery networks in the world. As the manager of website engineering at Amazon, he led the design and implementation of a new, layer 3 network for Amazon's production network. His work in the Internap R&D team resulted in his being awarded 3 patents in Internet routing and traffic optimization. Black is also co-author on several IETF RFCs on MPLS control protocols and IPv6 network operations.

Benjamin's Talks

Go with the flow - Meditations on network infrastructure analysis

Day 2 - 9:00 am

Location: Marble

  • Networks

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Highly scaled distributed web applications are predicated on a functional network, yet organizations rarely have detailed information about the consumption and expense of network resources. This data is essential for effective denial of service detection, intrusion detection, troubleshooting, capacity planning, and traffic engineering, but the time, cost and knowledge required to acquire and analyze the data can be a prohibitive barrier. Most organizations default to reactively analyzing this information after the fact, if at all. The dynamic nature of modern infrastructures can make these challenges even more acute.

This presentation will investigate representative scenarios that would benefit from detailed understanding of network traffic while outlining principles and tools for gathering and evaluating the data.

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