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
Artur Bergman Director of Operations, Wikia
Artur Bergman, hacker and technologist at-large, is the director of engineering at Wikia, supporting its mission to compile and index the world's knowledge. He is also an enthusiastic apologist for federated identity and a board member of the OpenID Foundation. His current interests include semantic search, large scale infrastructure, open source development, federated instant messaging, neurotransmitters, and the future of cyborgs.
Daniel's Talks
A journey through the full stack in search of performance and reliability
Time: 11 a.m. - 12 p.m., September 29th
Location: Edinburgh Room
How do you create something truly fast? How do you create a truly distributed system?
While deploying a global HTTP CDN may sound intimidating, the concept and design are quite straight forward. Implementation is where the devil plays. At every level of the stack there is a new set of challenges and bottlenecks to discover and work around. I'll take you through a in-the-weed tour of these challenges that we discovered building a CDN.
Hardware configuration, Solid State Devices, kernel patches, kernel configuration, tuning, software configuration, memory tuning and routing. But more importantly the process for finding the issues and eliminating them, the monitoring and mindset to make modern hardware perform at incredible performance.
Program
Speakers
We are announcing the 2011 line up of speakers and sessions starting on May 19th. One each day, in no particular order.
