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.
Speaker
Alexis Lê-Quôc Co-founder, DataDog
Alexis co-founded Datadog to help fellow developers and webops track in real-time events, changes and metrics that can affect their applications. He currently splits his time between caring for Datadog's data stack and thinking about how to improve the product.
Prior to Datadog Alexis was building infrastructure software and leading a team of IT operations staff as a Director of Operations for Wireless Generation, supporting several million teachers in the U.S. In practice that has meant everything from racking servers to obsessing over sql queries, to writing embedded code deployed in teachers' hands nationwide. In an earlier life he spent time optimizing the performance of web applications for Orange's 25 million mobile subscribers in France.
Alexis' Talks
From all-sql to no-sql and back to some-sql:
choosing the right db cocktail for Datadog
Time: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m., September 29th
Location: Corinthian Room
We will detail several architectures we evaluated or operated to meet our needs: accepting a continuous influx of events, storing tens of billions of points as time-series, and offering rich and low-latency query semantics on them.
Expect to hear in particular about:
- What we got from Oracle/Postgres over the past decade, and at what cost
- Illustrated joys and growing pains of running Cassandra and Riak on EC2
- An example of "data mullet", all postgres in the front and no-sql party in the back
Program
Speakers
We are announcing the 2011 line up of speakers and sessions starting on May 19th. One each day, in no particular order.
