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Availability, the Cloud and Everything

Presented by Joe Williams on Dec 09, 2010 Length 00:41:02 Download: MP3 Slides

Sections: Operations & Infrastructure,; Architecture & Design
Topics: CouchDB ,; Couchbase ,; Configuration Management ,; Distributed Document Oriented Database ,; Erlang ,; Companies ,; Operations ,; Source Control ,; ALM ,; NoSQL ,; Functional Programming ,; Distributed Systems ,; Enterprise Architecture ,; Programming ,; Infrastructure ,; Architecture ,; Database ,; Cloud Computing ,; Availability ,; Erlang Factory 2010

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Summary
Joe Williams discusses how distributed systems, cloud computing and automated configuration management affect system’s availability. He exemplifies with a database service built on CouchDB, Erlang, Chef, all running on EC2.

Bio
Joe Williams was a lead engineer at Linux managed hosting provider Contegix. Today, he attempts to automate everything while maintaining Cloudant’s infrastructure and deployment systems. He enjoys bridging the gap between operations and development as well as working with Ruby and functional languages such as Erlang. He is a contributor to Opscode Chef and a maintainer of merle.

About the conference
The Erlang Factory is an event that focuses on Erlang - the computer language that was designed to support distributed, fault-tolerant, soft-realtime applications with requirements for high availability and high concurrency. The main part of the Factory is the conference - a two-day collection of focused subject tracks with an enormous opportunity to meet the best minds in Erlang and network with experts in all its uses and applications.