Presentation: "Architecting for the Cloud: Horizontal Scalability via Transient, Shardable, Share-Nothing Resources"
Time: Thursday 15:00 - 16:00
Location: Metropolitan Ballroom
Taking advantage of cloud computing requires a subtle but significant shift in how we think about server resources. Adam Wiggins, cofounder and lead architect for Heroku, has been facing these issues daily for the last two years: Heroku was one of the first companies to utilize a 100% cloud-based infrastructure. Today, Heroku hosts over 30,000 Ruby/Rails applications. Adam will take you through the lessons we've learned along the way from running such a large and diverse base of applications.
Focus will be on the philosophical / architectural aspects, but specific technology examples used to illustrate the concepts will include Memcached, AMQP, Erlang, CouchDB, Varnish, and the good old fashioned Unix process space.
