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Futures and Promises: Lessons in Concurrency Learned at Tumblr
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Summary
Blake Matheny discusses the current status of Tumblr, its evolution and lessons learned along the way, 3 types of concurrency -Macro, Mecro and Micro-, and Motherboy –a dashboard system-.
Bio
Blake Matheny is Director of Platform Engineer at Tumblr where he works on building the backend services that let millions of blogs and billions of page views a month be served smoothly. Blake has been developing distributed systems for the past ten years and is currently enamored with Scala, Finagle, HBase and Redis. You can check out his blog at http://tumblr.mobocracy.net/
About the conference
Software is changing the world; QCon aims to empower software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the enterprise software development community; to achieve this, QCon is organized as a practitioner-driven conference designed for people influencing innovation in their teams: team leads, architects, project managers, engineering directors.
Nov 14, 2012