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Scaling Tumblr

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Summary

Ken Little discusses the architecture and infrastructure employed by Tumblr.

Bio

Ken Little is an engineer at Tumblr where he works with both the frontend and backend teams to build out the next generation of high scalability infrastructure. Prior to joining Tumblr, Ken worked as an Engineering Director at Etsy where he drove the implementation of a sharded data architecture, helping the site achieve new heights in throughput and availability. Blog: 61cygni.tumblr.com/

About the conference

Software is changing the world; QCon aims to empower software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the enterprise software development community; to achieve this, QCon is organized as a practitioner-driven conference designed for people influencing innovation in their teams: team leads, architects, project managers, engineering directors.

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Dec 18, 2012

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