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.

Tom Daly Speaker

Tom Daly President/CTO, Dyn Inc.

Tom Daly is President and Chief Technology Officer at Dyn Inc. where he is responsible for the architecture, development, and operations of the company's advanced DNS platforms. Tom spends his days studying and analyzing the Internet at large, to understand how to best architect Dyn Inc's advanced anycast DNS network. He is well-versed with the internals of BGP routing, DNS, and BIND (Dyn's name server software of choice). Tom has a BS in electrical and computer engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI).

Tom's Talks

Anycast Routing: Local Delivery

Day 2 - 2:30 pm

Location: Corinthian

  • Anycast, Networks
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Anycast Routing is used on the Internet to provide many services, including NTP and DNS, but very few know that you can locally deliver websites and content over HTTP/TCP/Anycast. There's many factors that go into designing an anycasted network, including:

  • Site and Carrier Selection — why both are important
  • Routing Protocol Design and BGP Policy
  • Load Balancing in Datacenters without Load Balancers
  • Application Design, State Management, specifics for TCP applications
  • Statistics Collection, Reporting, and Monitoring (Internally and Externally)
  • Distributed Denial of Service Attacks and Anycast Benefits and Risks

We'll discuss a real world event on Dyn Inc's network which caused a severe service degradation for one of our nameservers due to uncontrolled anycast route propagation, where global traffic landed in our Tokyo datacenter. (failure)

We'll also depict how live DDoS attacks are contained to their source region based upon anycast routing. (success)

Program

Sessions

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