Tech Presentations

Google organizes new conference for developers at Mascone West in San Francisco. It’s called Google I/O (and it’s logo is a little bit sexual, at least from my geeky perspective ;).

It’s going to be about AJAX, JavaScript, OpenSocial and other related open and specific to Google web technologies. Among the speakers Guido van Rossum, author of Python.

More info on TechPresentations.org: Google I/O 2008

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]

Thanks to Alex Moskalyuk, I’ve added several presentations about scalability:

• System Abstractions for Handling Large Datasets
• Building a Scalable Resource Mgmt System for Grid Computing
• YouTube Scalability
• Lessons In Building Scalable Systems
• Using MapReduce on Large Geographic Datasets
• SCTPs Reliability and Fault Tolerance
  
• VeriSign’s Global DNS Infrastucture
• Lustre File System

Plus Marissa Mayer’s presentation Scaling Google for Every User which is more about user experience measurement and so on - not so much about technical scalability.

Presentation about Google’s internal systems by independent researcher Toby DiPasquale given at Philadelphia LUG on August 2^nd, 2006 (slides)

Presentation about Mondrian, Google’s internal code review system that was developed as first project of Guido Van Rossum of Python fame. It is based on Perforce (which Google uses for source control), their own BigTable and Python-based web-interface with some serious AJAX. It is given on November 30th, 2006 (Video).