Cal Henderson
September 16 1:30PM
Everyone’s doing it—the poster children for “Web 2.0” are built on top of the LAMP stack. The next generation of web-based applications are built with free tools, with few people understanding the best way to scale these applications out. But patterns emerged very early on—all of these applications share some common architectural principles that seem to be working.In this brief state-of-the-world, we’ll look at the various approaches to scalable internet application architectures and what we can learn from them.
September 17 10:05AM
Video on the Web is fast becoming the cool kid, with sites like YouTube gaining massive popularity. This session will cover many of the details of getting video online from an engineering standpoint, all the way from receiving user-generated content, to video transcoding, storage, serving, and playback. The session will contain technical details and insights gleaned from implementing video on Flickr.