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
Robert Treat Lead Database Architect, OmniTI
Robert is an experienced open source developer and advocate, using his skills to implement web sites and web-based applications for over six years.
He has been recognized as one of PostgreSQL's major contributors. In addition, Robert speaks regularly at industry conferences. He co-authored the book Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8.
Rod Cope's Talks
Addressing Vendor Weaknesses In User-space
4 - 5 p.m., September 29th
Location: Edinburgh Room
Postgres has a long and stable legacy, but with that comes some steadfast design principals that don't always jive with operability in large systems. Fixing these issues in-kernel is an epic undertaking in both code complexity and social complexity, and sometimes it just proves easier to do it your damn self.
In this talk, we'll deep dive into the development and refinement of a low-level bloat removal/defragmentation system, designed entirely outside the database kernel and explore an adventure of wrong turns, bad bugs, and handicapped approaches. The adventure doesn't have a magical ending, but rather an acceptably happy one: a tool that can be used on highly concurrent, high-performance, zero-downtime environments.
Program
Speakers
We are announcing the 2011 line up of speakers and sessions starting on May 19th. One each day, in no particular order.
