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
Greg Lindahl Chief Technology Officer, Blekko
Greg Lindahl is Founder & CTO at blekko, a new web-scale search engine, where he mainly works on infrastructure & blekko's novel NoSQL database engine. He was previously a founder at PathScale, where he was the architect of the InfiniPath low-latency InfiniBand HCA, used a to build tightly-coupled supercomputing clusters. Prior to PathScale's founding in 2001, Greg worked on commodity Linux clusters at HPTi, including the 1999 Forecast Systems Lab system, which was the first time a Linux cluster won a conventional supercomputing procurement.
Greg's Talks
Experiences Operating a Large R3 database system
11 a.m. - 12 p.m., September 30th
Location: Edinburgh Room
Many NoSQL databases eschew RAID and use a 3-replica system for protecting against data loss. These systems are tricky to operate at scale, and only a limited number of organizations are attempting to operate high-availability production systems of this type. At blekko, a new web-scale search engine, we have operated our home-grown NoSQL database for 3.5 years with high uptime and very graceful degradation in the face of hardware failures - come learn about the features we found were key for achieving this.
Program
Speakers
We are announcing the 2011 line up of speakers and sessions starting on May 19th. One each day, in no particular order.
