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Scaling Distributed Systems

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Natalia Chechina outlines features of actor and functional programming models, and the reason these models attract so much interest in parallel, concurrent, and scaling world. She talks about fault tolerance, its importance in large scale systems, and the approaches to implement it.

Bio

Natalia Chechina is a Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. She received her PhD degree from Heriot-Watt University, UK in 2011. She then was a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow leading Scalable Distributed Erlang work package (WP3) in the RELEASE project.

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Software is Changing the World. QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.

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Oct 04, 2015

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