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.

Paul Querna Speaker

Paul Querna Chief Architect, Cloudkick

Paul Querna is a C & Python hacker and Chief Architect at Cloudkick, a Y-Combinator funded start-up. Cloudkick specializes in portability and openness between cloud providers. In the past, he was the former VP of Infrastructure for the Apache Software Foundation, and a developer on the Apache HTTP Web Server.

Paul's Talks

Libcloud: a unified interface into the cloud

Day 1 - 10:00 am

Location: Marble

  • Cloud

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What is possible when you can consume compute resources on various hosting providers with nothing more than a python script? This talk will discuss Apache Libcloud, an Apache Incubator project dedicated to building standard interfaces into cloud computing.

Apache Libcloud is a unified interface into many popular cloud providers such as Amazon EC2, GoGrid, and Rackspace. Libcloud was created to address the problem that each cloud hosting provider provides a proprietary, slightly different, implementation of their API for accessing resources. Libcloud brings interoperability, visibility, and more importantly scriptability to many standard system administrator tasks.

In addition to providing APIs to manage servers, Libcloud is working on developing a portable Server Image format, so that identical machines can be created on any cloud provider, without a dependency on configuration management tools.

Program

Sessions

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