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.

Bryan Cantrill Keynote

Bryan Cantrill VP of Engineering, Joyent

Bryan Cantrill is the VP of Engineering at Joyent, where he oversees worldwide development of the SmartOS and SmartDataCenter platforms. Prior to joining Joyent, Bryan served as a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he spent over a decade working on system software, from the guts of the kernel to client-code on the browser and much in between. In particular, he co-designed and implemented DTrace, a facility for dynamic instrumentation of production systems that won the Wall Street Journal's top Technology Innovation Award in 2006 and the USENIX Software Tools User Group Award in 2008. Bryan also co-founded the Fishworks group at Sun, where he designed and implemented the DTrace-based analytics facility for the Sun Storage 7000 series of appliances.

Bryan's Talks

Opening Keynote

Day 1 - 9:30 am

Location: Corinthian

  • Group Session

Enterprise solutions from commodity components: The Promise and the Peril

Day 2 - 9:00 am

Location: Corinthian

  • Reliability

The economics of commodity components are undeniable, but they also can suffer from acute reliability problems that introduce new (and often unanticipatable) failure modes. Even in a thoughtful architecture that is putatively designed around unreliable components, these failure modes can have dire consequences, potentially cascading into systemic failure. This talk will dissect some examples of these failures, exploring how the original failing component was able to induce broader failure, how the problem was ultimately understood, and what larger lessons can be drawn from the experience.

Program

Sessions

Speakers will be added as we approach the event dates. Visit back for updates to this page and the Sessions Calendar.