[Chicago] Notice of upcoming ACM Google Presentation on 1/9/2008

[Marc Temkin]

Hi,
    please post this info re the upcoming ACM Google Presentation on
1/9/2008.  
        Thanks,
            Marc Temkin
 
For January 9th hosting at Google Chicago

Title: Building Scalable Systems and Moving Large Datasets

Abstract:

 

In order to manage ever-increasing computation needs, Google continues to
scale its hardware and software systems to meet the need to store more data,
serve more requests, and at the same time improve results.

 

Using Google Code's Subversion server as a case study, this talk will cover
Google's hardware philosophy and several core infrastructure technologies
such as GFS, BigTable, and MapReduce. We'll also review advances in storage
as they relate to Google's project for moving large scientific datasets.

 

 

 

Brian Fitzpatrick, Engineering Manager, Google 

Brian Fitzpatrick started his career at Google in 2005 as the first software
engineer hired in the Chicago office. Brian leads Google's Chicago
engineering efforts and also serves as engineering manager for Google Code
and internal advisor for Google's open source efforts. Prior to joining
Google, Brian was a senior software engineer on the version control team at
CollabNet, working on Subversion, cvs2svn, and CVS. He has also worked at
Apple Computer as a senior engineer in their professional services division,
developing both client and web applications for Apple's largest corporate
customers.

 

Brian has been an active open source contributor for over ten years. After
years of writing small open source programs and bugfixes, he became a core
Subversion developer in 2000, and then the lead developer of the cvs2svn
utility. He was nominated as a member of the Apache Software Foundation in
2002 and spent two years as the ASF's VP of Public Relations. Brian has
written numerous articles and given many presentations on a wide variety of
subjects from version control to software development, including co-writing
"Version Control with Subversion" as well as chapters for "Unix in a
Nutshell" and "Linux in a Nutshell."

 

Brian has an A.B. in Classics from Loyola University Chicago with a major in
Latin, a minor in Greek, and a concentration in Fine Arts and Ceramics.
Despite growing up in New Orleans and working for Silicon Valley companies
for most of his career, he decided years ago that Chicago was his home and
stubbornly refuses to move to California.

 

Brians' Website:

 

http://www.red-bean.com/fitz/bio.shtml

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