Scalable Internet Architectures
We will dive deep into traditional web architectures and discuss what makes them go. Looking are real-life architectures, we’ll analyze weak points and discuss what will happen to them under the intense pressure of a prolonged exposure on Digg, the NYTimes or even MSN (or when traffic jumps from 15Mbits/second to over 1Gbit/second inside 30 seconds).
In a friendly atmosphere, you will enjoy a mix of anecdotes, war stories, good and bad design principles and more tips and tricks than you could use in a year.
Topics will include:
- the importance of visualizing data
- web protocols (HTTP/HTTPS) and browser behavior
- firewalls and load balancers
- HTTP requests, sizes, pipelining and what that means in packets
- remedial queue theory and why apps just “stop working”
- solid caching techniques for correctness and performance
- scary caching techniques for emergencies
- techniques for service isolation (quality of service protection)
- databases, caching and their torrid love affair
- service queues, how they work and why they usually don’t
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Theo Schlossnagle
OmniTI/Circonus
Theo Schlossnagle is a Founder and Principal at OmniTI where he designs and implements scalable solutions for highly trafficked sites and other clients in need of sound, scalable architectural engineering. He is the architect of the highly scalable Ecelerity mail transport agent. Theo is a participant in various open source communities including OpenSolaris, Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, perl, and many others. He is a published author in the area of scalability and distributed systems as well as a veteran speaker in the open source conference circuit.
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Excellent talk very informative and well executed.
Was so glad that I made it in time to catch Theo’s talk. As always, he delivered. Started the conference off right for me!
Very good! I missed half of it last year so came back to see the rest. Full notes on the session are up already at theagileadmin.com/2010/06/2...
Excellent high-speed tour through the philosophy of architecting and operating high-performance web sites. Good stuff. Theo’s an excellent speaker.