June 17, 2013
RICON East, Riak’s distributed systems conference, took place last month in New York. Hundreds of developers and academics gathered for two days to learn how distributed systems are being used in production and where they’ll be in the future.
Over the next few weeks, we will be posting the videos of the talks on the RICON East Archive. These videos are open to anyone and feature speakers from various distributed systems backgrounds. Slides for all of the talks are also available in the Archive.
The first six videos are already available on the site. These videos are:
- “Automatically Scalable Computation” by Dr. Margo Seltzer, Herchel Smith Professor of CS at Harvard SEAS
- “Why is my Cache so Dumb? Smarter Caching with Pequod” by Neha Narula, PhD Candidate at MIT
- “Bloom: Big Systems from Small Programs” by Neil Conway, PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley
- “Large Scale Data Service as a Service” by Brian Akins, Senior Principal Architect at Turner Broadcasting System
- “Optimizing LevelDB for Performance and Scale” by Matthew Von-Maszewski, Software Engineer at Riak Technologies
- “Just Open a Socket – Connecting Applications to Distributed Systems” by Sean Cribbs, Software Engineer at Riak Technologies
Riak is also hosting another distributed systems conference, RICON West, in San Francisco on October 29-30th. We already have some great speakers lined up, including Jeff Dean (Google Fellow), Kate Matsudaira (Founder and CTO of Pop Forms), Peter Bailis (PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley), Justin Sheehy (CTO at Riak Technologies), Jeff Hodges (Distributed Systems Engineer at Twitter), and Diego Ongaro (PhD Candidate at Stanford University). Early bird tickets are on sale now.
Be on the lookout for more videos coming soon and we’ll see you at RICON West!
