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
Raymond Blum Site Reliability Engineer, Google
Raymond Blum leads a team of Site Reliability Engineers whose job is to keep Google's storage infrastructure secure and recoverable. Before his current assignment in infrastructure, he worked on launching and scaling several of Google's user facing systems. Prior to coming to Google he was the IT director for a hedge fund after spending a few lifetimes developing systems at HBO and on Wall Street. In his meager spare time he indulges his interests in developing robotics and home automation systems
Raymond's Talk
Solidifying the Cloud - How to back up the internet!
Time: 2:30-3:30 p.m., September 29th
Location: Ionic Room
Systems like GMail and Picasa keep massive amounts of data in the cloud, all of which has to be constantly backed up to prepare for the inevitable. Typical backup and recovery techniques don't scale, so Google has devised new methods for securing unprecedented volumes of data against every type of failure.
There are many unique challenges, both obvious and subtle, in delivering storage systems at this scale; we'll discuss these and their solutions as well as some alternatives that didn't make the grade.
Speaker
Dr. Jia Guo Software Engineer, Google
Dr. Jia Guo has been participating in design and optimization of the crawl engine, the largest scale data processing system of in Google, for the past several years. Her interests include parallel programming, large scale infrastructure and the strategies to detect duplicate content in the web.
Jia's Talk
Challenges in Building a Large Scale Crawling System
Time: 2:30-3:30 p.m., September 29th
Location: Ionic Room
Building and operating large-scale system that handles billions of documents around the web provides a number of interesting challenges. In this talk I will discuss the evolution of Google's crawl engine and especially some of the design challenges that arise to meet demands for short latency with ever increasing volume. I will also describe how various pieces of distributed systems infrastructure were used in building such systems.
Speaker
Maxwell Luebbe Site Reliability Engineer, Google
Max is a Site Reliability Engineer at Google's New York City office. In this role he is responsible for running a handful of services you probably use every day, specifically with regards to their availability and reliability. Prior to working at Google, he cofounded Pip.io, a social web startup in Palo Alto, CA. When he has free time, he enjoys restoring and writing software for vintage gaming systems.
Max's Talk
Running a Frontend Webservice at Google Scale
Time: 2:30-3:30 p.m., September 29th
Location: Ionic Room
Google frontend services reliably serve millions of users a day throughout the world, and the strategies involved to achieve this stability while allowing for rapid iteration range from being straight forward to subtly complex.
Reliability is not something that just happens on its own, but rather, is a product of of a constant process with that deliberate focus. In this talk we'll discuss approaches and philosophy with regards to running a user facing service at scale, as well as some potential pitfalls seen in the world of web operations at Google.
Program
Speakers
We are announcing the 2011 line up of speakers and sessions starting on May 19th. One each day, in no particular order.
