School of Computer Science

A New Way of Thinking-Infinite Scalability and Rapid Scale Development (-bigger picture for NOSQL?)

Date(s)
Tuesday 21st September 2010 (15:00-16:00)
Contact
Henrik Nilsson  nhn@cs.nott.ac.uk
Description

Speaker: Dr Jonas Karlsson

Location: Room C1 Computer Science Building

Abstract:

In this talk Jonas takes a retrospective look in the mirror of the scalability work he's done at Google, and previous research work. The focus is how successful applications in the cloud is enabled by the designing for "infinite scalability". The talk draws on NOSQL system design and implementation experiences and insights gained by enabling and reviewing numerous applications design for scalability.Specifically, necessary principles for designing successful scalable servers is discussed. At the end, some ideas, maybe controversial, will be discussed, regarding programming languages, environments and what the next stepping stone should be.

Biography:

Jonas currently travels the world, visiting old friends and new friends that he hasn't seen for 10+ years. On Independence Day he gave notice from Google after 5 years of fun of implementing various scalable systems. He spent 10 days doing a new revolutionary form of tai chi in Shanghai, some days visiting some monks, meditating and staying in buddhist temples. If you ask him what he does: He say he drinks tea!Don't ask where he's from, ask instead where he's going (Asia). Jonas dwells in design and implementation of scalable systems, database technology and applications. At Google he worked on ads-backend, was one of the original creator of Google Megastore, a next-gen NOSQL database technology system. Last two years he spent scaling and doing reliable instant indexing in Google Wave. He started and led the first meditation group at Google about 4 years ago, and continues to integrate work, programming, Zen meditation and life. Occasionally he hacks on his functional declarative optimizing query programming language interpreter. Getting a motorcycle again might be on the agenda. Jonas has a PhD in Computer Science/Database Systems from University of Amsterdam.

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