Tech Presentations

Google is planning Google Seattle Conference on Scalability 2008 this year on June 14^th. They are very quiet about this stuff and it’s hard to find a lot of information and there is no real page for it yet. Last year’s page had pretty scarce information too, but they had videos which is good.

They have call for papers running till April 11 so if you want to give a talk there, you can send them 500-word abstract.

While you’re waiting for more info on this years conference, take a look at last year presentations on TechPresentations.org:

• Building a Scalable Resource Mgmt System for Grid Computing given by Khalid Ahmed
• Lessons In Building Scalable Systems given by Reza Behforooz
• Lustre File System given by Peter Braam
• SCTPs Reliability and Fault Tolerance given by Brad Penoff, Mike Tsai and Alan Wagner
• Scaling Google for Every User given by Marissa Mayer
• System Abstractions for Handling Large Datasets given by Jeff Dean
• Using MapReduce on Large Geographic Datasets given by Barry Brumitt
• VeriSign’s Global DNS Infrastucture given by Patrick Quaid and Scott Courtney
• YouTube Scalability given by Cuong Do

[via Google Research Blog]

I was looking for info about next year’s CES and found a list of all future events till … 2015!

That’s what I call planning ;) Obviously, I immediately entered them all: CES 2009, CES 2010, CES 2011, CES 2012, CES 2013, CES 2014, CES 2015.

P.S. I also added sharing widget from AddThis.com (at the top right corner of each page). Go ahead and share stuff with others ;)

Very thorough overview of techniques to improve real and perceived performance of front-end heavy web applications by Julien Lecomte. Not only browser-server communication, but page rendering, JavaScript parsing, DOM manipulations, memory leaking and so on. He also mentions whole lot of tools for development and profiling.

See on TechPresentations.org: High Performance Ajax Applications

Thanks to Bill Clementson, I found out that I missed another OLPC technology presentation that was given by Ivan Krstić at Google Tech Talk.

Ivan talks about various interesting things in OLPC including their own approach to power management that reduced suspend time from 15 seconds (regular computers) to ~233 milliseconds (at the moment of presentation), file system with object store and unusual security requirements.

He also describes “View Source” button on keyboard - probably the first Open Source promotional tool of the kind.

See presentation on TechPresentations.org: One Laptop Per Child (Google Talk)

P.S. OLPC is running Give 1 Get 1 initiative that allows anyone to donate laptop to a child in development country and in return, get one for yourself. It just costs $400 for two laptops. Currently limited to US & Canada, but there are ways to get it elsewhere.

David Recordon made a good overview of problems and emerging technologies for open and distributed social networking from identity (OpenID, OAuth) to data interchange formats (XFN).

See it on TechPresentations.org: Open Platforms and the Social Graph