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
Kate Matsudaira VP of Engineering, SEOMoz
Kate Matsudaira fills the role as Vice President of Engineering at SEOmoz where she is responsible for managing the core technology team.
Prior to SEOmoz, Kate filled the role of VP Engineering at another startup, Delve Networks (now part of Limelight). While there she helped create and monetize a very large scale distributed system used for online video delivery and video search, that delivers millions of video streams per month and is used by enterprise clients like the NFL. Prior to that she worked in at other leading technology companies like Amazon.com, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems.
Kate has extensive knowledge of building large scale distributed web systems, web services, but also shares a passion for SEO and social media.
Kate has a B.S. in Computer Science from Harvey Mudd College, and has completed graduate work at the University of Washington in both Business and Computer Science (M.S.).
Kate's Talks
Really Scaling a Rails Application
1:30 - 2:30 p.m., September 29th
Location: Corinthian Room
Ruby on Rails is a great framework for quickly building applications, but what happens when you are wildly successful and need to scale way up? This talk is a case study in the evolution of our Rails application from a monolithic "does everything" systems running on a hosted server to a service-oriented system running in the cloud. As part of this tale, we will also cover the migration from a single MySQL data store to an environment with sharded MySQL and several NoSQL variants. We will detail choices made along the way, the data used to make those choices, and distill the decision path down to a series of recommendations.
The audience will come away with concrete methods to scale their web applications and hints and heuristics to manage the evolution of their data.
Program
Speakers
We are announcing the 2011 line up of speakers and sessions starting on May 19th. One each day, in no particular order.
