Faster Facebook

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In this talk, Jason Sobel from Facebook will cover some of the challenges they've faced and the solutions they've developed while making Facebook faster. Jason will also spend some time brainstorming about the future of web performance optimization.

Jason Sobel is an engineer on the Infrastructure team at Facebook, where he focuses on keeping the site fast and scalable. He helped develop Facebook's multiple datacenter strategy and also worked on Haystack, Facebook's custom built photo storage infrastructure. Before joining Facebook, Jason was a member of the WAFL team at NetApp where he worked on filesystem performance. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science from Brown University.

The event is hosted at CBS Interactive on Wednesday, April 13th, 2011 at 7PM. Doors open at 6:30PM. As usual, food & drinks are courtesy of Yammer (https://www.yammer.com/about/jobs) (thanks!). We will be streaming and recording the presentation on ustream.tv (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sf-web-performance-group-meetup).

Agenda:

• 18:30 :: Check-in & Mingle
• 19:00 :: Introductions & Presentation
• 20:00 :: Questions and Answer & Open Form
• 20:30 :: Networking & Discussion
• ??? :: Beers at the pub!

Please note, that CBS Interactive Security requires attendees to present picture identification to enter the conference room. You must be prepared to provide picture identification if you wish to attend.