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10:00am Friday, 07/23/2010

Practical Concurrency

Tools & Techniques
Location: E145/E146

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Tim Bray (Google, Inc.)

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(4.22, 27 ratings)

Computers are getting wider, not faster. If you want your code to run faster, it has to have some parallelism. This is hard, and threads probably aren't the answer. There is a lot of new concurrency technology on the scene. This talk surveys the 2010 state of the art in tools to empower developers to write concurrent code, and makes some predictions. Read more.

10:00am Friday, 07/23/2010

Reconnoiter: Monitoring and Trend Analysis

Operations
Location: D135

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Theo Schlossnagle (OmniTI/Circonus)

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(3.57, 7 ratings)

Monitoring systems to collect metrics is systems administration 101. However, systems are more complicated, there are more metrics and correlation is a must to troubleshoot problems or plan for growth. As our problem got bigger, our tools didn't get better. Reconnoiter is a large-scale monitoring and trend analysis system designed to nip these problems in the bud. Read more.

11:00am Friday, 07/23/2010

Hybrid Storage: Local Data, Remote Cloud

Cloud Computing
Location: E145/E146

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Aahz (Egnyte)

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(2.25, 4 ratings)

Egnyte started as a cloud storage provider, but our customers demanded that we provide an easy way to synchronize their local data with the cloud because they wanted to retain control of their data. Come learn how we solved some of the problems of automatic bidirectional synchronization using a CherryPy/Cheetah Python client that runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux. Read more.

11:50am Friday, 07/23/2010

Tricking out your Memcached Setup

Cloud Computing
Location: E145/E146

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Brian Aker (HP)

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(4.14, 7 ratings)

Ever wanted to get a bit more out of Memcached? Wondering how to set it up for redundancy or load check your server? This talk will go over all of the latest features to libmemcached. This will include information on how to setup replication, how to build a server with libmemcached-protocol, and how to pick the best hashing algorithm. Read more.

11:50am Friday, 07/23/2010

Using SMS in the Developing World

Mobile
Location: D139/140

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Andy McKay (Mozilla)

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(4.50, 2 ratings)

RapidSMS is an open source project for messaging, data collection and co-ordination over SMS. It's used throughout the world for a variety of projects, from fighting child malnutrition and malaria to monitoring elections. This talk introduces RapidSMS and covers some of the sample applications built with it. Read more.

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