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.

Joe Williams Speaker

Joe Williams Infrastructure Engineer, Cloudant

Formerly a lead engineer at linux managed hosting provider Contegix. Today, Joe attempts to automate everything while maintaining Cloudant's infrastructure and deployment systems. He enjoys bridging the gap between operations and development as well as working with Ruby and functional languages such as Erlang. Additionally he is a contributor to Opscode Chef and a maintainer of an Erlang Memcached client called merle.

Joe's Talks

Availability, the Cloud and Everything

Day 2 - 4:00 pm

Location: Marble

  • Cloud,
  • NoSQL

The talk will focus on how I (with the help of the entire Cloudant team) built our database service based on CouchDB on top of EC2. Specifically how we use Erlang, Chef, EC2 and other tools to build highly available and performant database clusters. This includes using Chef and Erlang's hot code upgrades to automate cluster-wide upgrades without restarting any services.

Program

Sessions

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