Presentation by Avinash Lakshman of Facebook. The presenter was one of the designers of Amazon’s Dynamo, and brought a lot of those ideas to Cassandra, a Bigtable clone used for Facebook’s mail search. Notes: *Highly available; eventual consistency only *Replication knobs available (like Dynamo) *For performance, they rely on application …
The starting point of all Agile engineering practices is reproducibly building from source code. If software is delivered on servers, and those servers can’t be reproducibly deployed from bare metal to running services, how Agile can you be? The definition of ’shipping’ software has changed dramatically in the last decade. …
Managers at many levels are often afraid to let go of the reins in fear that they may lose control of the project. This interactive presentation will display the benefit of managers letting go, and will outline the expectations of a responsible, empowered agile team. Through presentation of multiple real-world …
Agile is now mature enough to exchange ideas with other fields. Ideas should flow in both directions – bringing in new ideas from outside, and also sharing what we have learned with the wider community. This session will present useful ideas which we can “steal†from business, psychology, economics and …
Voldemort is a distributed key-value store written in Java. Jay is a interesting laid-back guy with some strong opinions. This was one of the best things about the presentations: people said what they thought and the audience seemed to listen and understand, rather than attack (until later, when we got …
Todd Lipcon from Cloudera introduces the concepts behind open source, distributed, non relational databases, from the recent NOSQL meetup in San Francisco. He presented a summary of many of the issues that people are trying to solve with these systems: *Partitioning schemes (does maintaining a map really not scale?) *Data …