Ron Gorodetzky
Topic:
Cluster beats Server, but Pie beats everything
Company:
Digg Inc.
Title:
Systems Engineering Manager Ron Gorodetzky attended University of California San Diego after which he did small scale computer consulting. In November 2004 he was asked to help administer a small server for a side project called Digg, a social news site.
Soon after, he also co-founded Revision3, an online production company. Over the years Digg's growing popularity has given Ron an opportunity to help design and build a growing scalable infrastructure that serves billions of pages a month.
Abstract:
Computers are faster than ever. Today a single server can handle a wide range of applications and a fair bit of traffic. But sometimes one isn't enough. How do you go from a single system to a cluster? What problems will you need to solve, and how have others addressed them? And what are you going to need to know in order to manage a cluster?
* Review: What should a fresh faced systems engineer know by now?
* How exactly do servers do their work?
* What problems do you try to solve with clusters
* When should you consider moving to a cluster architecture?
* The what/why/how of scaling.
* What types of clusters are there?
* What makes a cluster work?
* How do clusters break?
* Overview of cluster technologies used in other companies
* How do you manage your fancy new cluster?
* have I said "cluster" enough times?
* plus some friendly sysadmin advice along the way
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