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

Surge 2011 Keynote & Speaker List

Discussing Scalability Matters...

...because scalability matters. Surge is 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.

Daniel Austin Speaker
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Daniel Austin Chief Architect, Paypal

  • Wrestling Large Data Volumes to the Ground view talk
Artur Bergman Speaker
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Artur Bergman Director of Operations, Wikia

  • A journey through the full stack
    in search of performance and reliability     view talk
Chris Burroughs Speaker
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Chris Burroughs Developer, Clearspring Technologies

  • Hybrid data storage: finding balance. view talk
Raymond Blum Speaker
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Raymond Blum Site Reliability Engineer, Google

  • Solidifying the Cloud - How to back up the internet! view talk
Bryan Cantrill Speaker & Panelist
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Bryan Cantrill VP of Engineering, Joyent

  • Building a Real-Time Cloud Analytics Service with Node.js view talk
  • Speaker, Panel Discussion: "Pushing Big Data to the Cloud" view talk
Rod Cope Speaker
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Rod Cope Chief Technology Officer, OpenLogic

  • Cloudbursting with Amazon EC2 and SQS view talk
Tom Hughes-Croucher Speaker
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Tom Hughes-Croucher Chief Evangelist, Joyent

  • Build high performance Internet and
    web applications with Node.js     view talk
Hubert Fonseca Speaker
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Hubert Fonseca Software Engineer, Intelie

  • Using complex event processing to gather
    information from infrastructure     view talk
Ben Fried Keynote
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Ben Fried CIO, Google

Wez Furlong Speaker
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Wez Furlong Chief Software Architect, Message Systems

  • Practical Lessons Learned in Scaling at Message Systems view talk
André Galvani Speaker
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André Galvani Infrastructure and Operations Manager, iG

  • Using complex event processing to gather
    information from infrastructure     view talk
Dr. Jia Guo Speaker
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Dr. Jia Guo Software Engineer, Google

  • Challenges in Building a Large Scale Crawling System view talk
John Hugg Speaker & Panelist
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John Hugg Senior Software Engineer, VoltDB

  • Taming the Big Data Fire Hose view talk
  • Speaker, Panel Discussion: "Pushing Big Data to the Cloud" view talk
Mark Imbriaco Speaker
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Mark Imbriaco Director Cloud Operations, Heroku

Adam Jacob Speaker
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Adam Jacob President & Co-founder, Opscode

Poul-Henning Kamp Speaker
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Poul-Henning Kamp Varnish Architect, Varnish Software

  • Getting the content out, from Heidelberg to Varnish view talk
Adam Kocoloski Speaker
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Adam Kocoloski Founder/CTO, Cloudant

  • Under the Hood of a Distributed Database Service view talk
Alexis Lê-Quôc Speaker
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Alexis Lê-Quôc Co-founder, DataDog

  • From all-sql to no-sql and back to some-sql:
    choosing the right db cocktail for Datadog     view talk
Greg Lindahl Speaker
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Greg Lindahl Chief Technology Officer, Blekko

  • Experiences Operating a Large R3 database system view talk
Maxwell Luebbe Speaker
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Maxwell Luebbe Site Reliability Engineer, Google

  • Running a Frontend Webservice at Google Scale view talk
Geir Magnusson Jr. Speaker
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Geir Magnusson Jr. Chief Technology Officer, Function(x)

Kate Matsudaira Speaker & Panelist
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Kate Matsudaira VP of Engineering, SEOMoz

  • Really Scaling a Rails Application view talk
  • Speaker, Panel Discussion: "Pushing Big Data to the Cloud" view talk
David Pacheco Speaker
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David Pacheco Software Engineer, Joyent

  • Building a Real-Time Cloud Analytics Service with Node.js view talk
Mike Panchenko Speaker
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Mike Panchenko Infrastructure Engineer, SimpleGeo

  • Building a cloud service on a cloud infrastructure. Also, cloud. view talk
Andy Parsons Speaker
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Andy Parsons Chief Technology Officer, Bookish

  • Battle Scars: Scaling Big Startups in the Cloud view talk
Gavin M. Roy Speaker
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Gavin M. Roy Chief Technology Officer, MyYearbook

Theo Schlossnagle Speaker
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Theo Schlossnagle Principal/CEO, OmniTI

Baron Schwartz Speaker & Panelist
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Baron Schwartz Chief Performance Architect, Percona

  • Extracting Scalability and Performance Metrics from TCP Traffic view talk
  • Moderator, Panel Discussion: "Pushing Big Data to the Cloud" view talk
Ross Snyder Speaker
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Ross Snyder Sr. Software Engineer, Etsy

  • Scaling Etsy: What Went Wrong, What Went Right view talk
Mathias Stearn Speaker
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Mathias Stearn Software Engineer, 10Gen

Robert Treat Speaker & Panelist
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Robert Treat Lead Database Architect, OmniTI

  • Addressing Vendor Weaknesses In User-space view talk
  • Speaker, Panel Discussion: "Pushing Big Data to the Cloud" view talk
Philip Wickline Panelist
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Philip Wickline Chief Technology Officer, Hadapt

  • Speaker, Panel Discussion: "Pushing Big Data to the Cloud" view talk

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