Chr-anz-ukah Stocking Full of Distributed Computing Brains!

Christmas, Kwanza, Hanukah or whatever else you celebrate... our members are elves who deliver for the holidays!

Because we got such quality entrants for our holiday lightning talks, I've opted for fewer people speaking longer. Quality AND quantity, the ultimate holiday gift!

Join us for festive food and drinks at 6:00 pm followed by our very own member speakers:

Joel VanderWerf- After careers as a math professor, embedded database developer, transportation researcher, and mud-on-the-boots distributed systems hacker, Joel is trying to contribute something new to the ever-growing toolbox of open-source frameworks for distributed computing. Joel is the creator of Tupelo. Tupelo is a language-agnostic protocol for distributing both computation and storage. The semantics is the classic tuplespace operations (read/write/take) plus transactions and subspaces. The implementation uses an atomic multicast messaging layer. If you like consistency, determinism, optimistic concurrency, and low latency, you'll like tupelo, but beware the single point of failure. We'll look at two examples in ruby: map-reduce and replicated polyglot storage using LevelDB and SQLite.

https://github.com/vjoel/tupelo

Arup Chakrabarti - Arup is part of the Operations Engineering team at PagerDuty, the leader in On-Call schedule management, alert and incident tracking. One of the biggest engineering challenges at PagerDuty is how to design a service that never goes down. In this talk, Arup will cover some of the challenges around the multi-master and multi-cloud approach that PagerDuty has taken to improve overall availability.

Tobias Knaup - Tobi is a founder of Mesosphere, a startup that is building a data center operating system based on Apache Mesos. He is the main author of Marathon, an Apache Mesos framework for managing long-running services. Prior to founding Mesosphere, Tobi was one of the first engineers and engineering leaders at Airbnb. At Airbnb, he wrote large parts of the infrastructure including the search and fraud prediction services. He helped scale the site to millions of users and build a world class engineering team. Tobi will go over some of the main concepts of Mesosphere and then treat us to a live coding session.