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
Chris Burroughs Developer, Clearspring Technologies
Chris Burroughs is a developer at Clearspring Technologies where he works on the Data and Analytics team. There he wrestles with the black art of JVM tuning, searches for meaning in TCP state diagrams, and continues the never ending journey to make sense of distributed systems. Chris is also active in the Apache Cassandra and Kafka communities.
Chris' Talks
Hybrid data storage: finding balance.
Time: 10 - 11 a.m., September 30th
Location: Edinburgh Room
Over the past several years Clearspring has developed custom distributed processing and storage systems for dealing with the billions of views our web products receive per day. A central part of this system is a tree-based storage structure that fills a useful middle ground between the datamodel-centric view of row oriented databases and the query-centric view more common with column oriented ones. This presentation will cover the key components of our architecture and some of the trade-offs we have faced between: sharding/scatter-gather approaches versus more sophisticated distributed approaches, statistical approximation versus exact answers, custom solutions versus adapting off-the-shelf components, and latency of updates versus just about everything. In particular we hope to share how these trade-offs have changed and how we have adapted over time.
Program
Speakers
We are announcing the 2011 line up of speakers and sessions starting on May 19th. One each day, in no particular order.
