Videos tagged with Fault Tolerance

Summary Ulf Wiger shows typical Erlang programs, patterns that scale well on multicore and patterns that don't, profiling and debugging parallel applications and ensuring correct behaviour with QuickCheck. Bio Ulf Wiger is the CTO of Erlang Training and Consulting. He has worked for Ericsson and was Chief Designer of the AXD 301 development. At nearly 2 million lines of Erlang code, AXD 301 is ...

Summary In this talk from RubyFringe, Damien Katz explains what drove him to create CouchDB, why he chose Erlang and more. Bio Damien Katz has worked for Lotus, MySQL, IBM and is the creator of CouchDB. He blogs at http://damienkatz.net/ . About the conference RubyFringe is an avant-garde conference for developers that are excited about emerging Ruby projects and technologies. They're mounting ...

Summary Picture a system so large it cannot be comprehended. Can such a system be "designed" in any conventional sense? Will machines help design it? Will it help design itself? How will it keep running? Will it be alive? The foundations of computing are about to change. In this talk, Richard P. Gabriel explores why and how. Bio Richard P. Gabriel has a PhD in CS from Stanford, and an...

Summary In this interview from QCon San Francisco 2007, Randy Shoup discusses the architecture of eBay. Topics discussed include eBay's architectural principles, horizontal and vertical partitioning, ACID vs. BASE, handling data inconsistency, distributed caching, updating eBay on the fly, architectural and coding standards, eBay's search infrastructure, grid computing, and SOA. Bio Randy Shoup...