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HyperDB and High Performance WordPress

scoundrel — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 05:10:11 GMT

What do you do when your blog goes from a thousand pageviews a day to a million?

Barry and Matt have worked with some of the most popular blogs in the world, and they know what it takes to make them hum. In the first part Matt will talk about HyperDB, the database class that is the magic behind WordPress.com, and how you can use it for your own sites. In the second part Barry will look at some real-world performance benchmarks of WP and some best practices on the systems level.

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Seattle Conference on Scalability

scoundrel — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 06:56:22 GMT

Google Tech Talks
June, 23 2007

ABSTRACT

Seattle Conference on Scalability: June 23, 2007

We care a lot about scalability at Google. An algorithm that works only on a small scale doesn't cut it when we are talking global access, millions of people, millions of search queries. We think big and love to talk about big ideas, so we're planning our first ever conference on scalable systems. Our goal: to create a collegial atmosphere for participants to brainstorm different ways to build the robust systems that can handle, literally, a world of information.

Speaker: Barry Brumitt
Barry Brumitt is a software engineer with Google, Inc. who has been
working on maps-related applications since joining the Kirkland, WA
office in November 2005. Prior to coming to Google, he was at
Microsoft Corp for 8 years, working in both MS Games Studios and
MS Research. At MGS, he was responsible for the Artificial
Intelligence in Forza Motorsport, a simulation-style XBox racing
game. Previously at MSR, he worked in Ubiquitous Computing,
exploring location-based services, geometric models, and multi-
modal interfaces for smart environments, and publishing over a
dozen peer-reviewed papers. He received his Ph.D. in Robotics
from Carnegie Mellon in December 1997, and two B.Sc.s' in
Computer Engineering and Physics.

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Ruby Hoedown 2007: Exploring Merb

scoundrel — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:48:01 GMT

Merb is the new kid on the block of ruby web frameworks. In this talk we will explore some of the design goals of the framework and look at how it's put together.

Merb is a small core designed to give the basic infrastructure for dealing with HTTP requests/responses along with routing, controllers and template rendering. The basic premise is simple hackable framework code that you build up to your application domain.

Speaker BIO

Ezra Zygmuntowicz has been using Rails since July 2004 when it was first released and Ruby for about three and a half years. He is the author of Rails Deployment for the Pragmatic Programmers and Co-founder of Engine Yard, a rails only fully managed hosting company. Ezra is also the author of many Rails plugins such as Backgroundrb and ez-where.

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PlentyOfFish.com How one man beat the big guys

scoundrel — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:56:08 GMT

Have you ever met someone who is simply amazing? Well I have and that someone is Markus Frind. A few years ago he was just another victim of the .com bust in Vancouver BC. An ASP developer he decided he needed to learn ASP.NET so he created a dating site called PlentyOfFish.com. Online dating is a very big business with large companies and multi-million dollar budgets but Markus and his one man operation took them on and today he is a force to be reckoned with.

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Bay Area MySQL Users Group Meeting, July 2007 - Tim Kay

scoundrel — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:25:47 GMT

Tim presents the architecture that he designed for one of his clients. The system collects data from thousands of cell phones and matches the data acoustically with reference data that is collected via a different process.

The requirements include data integrity but not high availability, so he was able to compromise in a way that significantly reduced cost and complexity.

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MySQL Bay Area Community Meetup, May 2007

scoundrel — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:22:30 GMT

First video from the monthly proceedings of the Bay Area MySQL User's Group.

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Seattle Conference on Scalability: Building a Scalable Resource Management

scoundrel — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:41:16 GMT

Google Tech Talks
June 23, 2007

ABSTRACT

2007 Google Seattle Conference on Scalability: Building a Scalable Resource Mgmt System for Grid Computing
Speaker: Khalid Ahmed, Platform Computing Corp.

This talk will describe the architecture and implementation details for building a highly scalable resource management layer that can support a variety of applications and workloads. This technology has evolved from large scale computing grids deployed in
production at customers such as Texas Instruments, AMD, JP Morgan, and various government labs. We will show how to build a centralized dynamic load information collection service that can handle up to 5000 nodes/20,000 cpus in a single cluster. The service is able to gather a variety of system level metrics and is extensible to collect up to 256 dynamic or static attributes of a node and actively feed them to a centralized master. A built-in election algorithm ensures timely failover of the master service ensuring high-availability without the need for specialized interconnects. This building block is extended to multiple clusters that can be organized hierarchically to support a single resource management domain that can span multiple data centers.

We believe the current architecture could scale to 100,000 nodes/400,000 cpus. Additional services such as a distributed process execution service, and a policy-based resource allocation engine which leverage this core scale-out clustering service are described. The protocols, communication overheads, and various design tradeoffs that were made the development of these services will be presented along with experimental results from various tests, simulations and production environments.

Khalid Ahmed works as the Chief Architect and Director of Technology Research at Platform Computing. In over 12 years at Platform he worked in a number of roles including development, product management and architecture. His work on distributed scheduling, wide-area resource sharing, workload management, system automation, virtualization management, and high availability.

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Seattle Conference on Scalability: Abstractions for Handling Large Datasets

scoundrel — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:39:20 GMT

Google Tech Talks
June 23, 2007

ABSTRACT

2007 Google Seattle Conference on Scalability: MapReduce, BigTable, and Other Distributed System Abstractions for Handling Large Datasets Jeff Dean, Google, Inc.

Search is one of the most important applications used on the internet, but it also poses some of the most interesting challenges in computer science. Providing high-quality search requires understanding across a wide range of computer science disciplines, from lower-level systems issues like computer architecture and distributed systems to applied areas like information retrieval, machine learning, data mining, and user interface design. In this talk, I'll highlight some of the behind-the-scenes pieces of infrastructure that we've built in order to operate Google's services.

Jeff Dean joined Google in 1999 and is currently a Google Fellow in Google's Systems Infrastructure Group. While at Google he has worked on Google's crawling, indexing, query serving, and advertising systems, implemented several search quality improvements, and built several major pieces of Google's distributed computing infrastructure. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1996 working with Craig Chambers on compiler optimization techniques for object-oriented languages.

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Seattle Conference on Scalability: Scaling Google for Every User

scoundrel — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:24:48 GMT

Google Tech Talks
June 23, 2007

ABSTRACT

Marissa Mayer, Vice President, Search Products & User
Experience, leads the product management efforts on Google's
search products – web search, images, groups, news, Froogle, the
Google Toolbar, Google Desktop, Google Labs, and more. She
joined Google in 1999 as Google's first female engineer and led the
user interface and webserver teams at that time. Her efforts have
included designing and developing Google's search interface,
internationalizing the site to more than 100 languages, defining
Google News, Gmail, and Orkut, and launching more than 100
features and products on Google.com. Several patents have been
filed on her work in artificial intelligence and interface design.

Concurrently with her full-time work at Google, Marissa has taught
introductory computer programming classes at Stanford to over
3,000 students. Stanford has recognized her with the Centennial
Teaching Award and the Forsythe Award for her outstanding
contribution to undergraduate education.

Prior to joining Google, Marissa worked at the UBS research lab
(Ubilab) in Zurich, Switzerland and at SRI International in Menlo
Park, California. Marissa has been featured in various publications,
including Newsweek ("10 Tech Leaders of the Future"), Red Herring
("15 Women to Watch"), Business 2.0 ("Silicon Valley Dream
Team"), BusinessWeek, Fortune, and Fast Company. Graduating
with honors, Marissa received her B.S. in Symbolic Systems and
her M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University. For both
degrees, she specialized in artificial intelligence.

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Seattle Conference on Scalability: Lessons In Building Scalable Systems

scoundrel — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 13:46:01 GMT

Google Tech Talks
June 23, 2007

ABSTRACT

2007 Google Seattle Conference on Scalability:
Lessons In Building Scalable Systems Speaker: Reza Behforooz Since launching Google Talk in the summer of 2005, we have integrated the service with two large existing products: Gmail and orkut. Each of these integrations provided unique scalability challenges as we had to handle a sudden big increase in the number of users. Today, Google Talk supports millions of users and handles billions of packets per day. I will discuss several practical lessons and key insights from our experience that can be used for any project. These lessons will cover both engineering and operational areas. Reza Behforooz is a Staff Engineer at Google and is currently the technical lead for the Google Talk servers. He's passionate about building large systems and working on communication products in an attempt to make the world a smaller place. While at Google, he has primarily worked on Google Talk, Gmail, orkut, Google Groups, and shared infrastructure used by several Google applications. Reza holds a BS from Cornell and a MS from Stanford in Computer Science. Prior to Google, he held various engineering and management positions at Microsoft and two startups, Zaplet and Epiphany.

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