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Things Break, Riak Bends

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Summary

Justin Sheehy talks about failure and the need to prepare for it, giving some real life examples along with techniques implemented in Riak to make it resilient to faults.

Bio

Justin Sheehy is the CTO of Basho Technologies, the company behind the creation of Webmachine and Riak. Most recently before Basho, he was a Principal Scientist at the MITRE Corporation and a Senior Architect for Systems Infrastructure at Akamai where he focused on multiple aspects of robust distributed systems, including scheduling algorithms, language-based formal models, and resilience.

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Aug 09, 2011

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