Jam 6: Distributed Systems

held November 2007

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Google London Open Source Jam

When

Thursday 29^th November 2007. 6pm - 9.30pm.

Where

At the London Google Engineering Office

Belgrave House, 76 Buckingham Palace Road, London, SW1W 9TQ. Map

Topic

This time, our topic of interest is Distributed Systems.

• Techniques to parallelize processing (e.g. Map/Reduce)
• Dealing with large and replicated data-stores (e.g. database sharding, distributed maps)
• Using distributed caches (e.g. memcache, JCache)
• Deployment and upgrades
• Programming techniques (e.g. functional, Erlang, etc)
• Threading and concurrency techniques (e.g. CSP, SEDA)
• High-level monitoring and visualization

Hosts

Neil Dunn, Joe Walnes, Malcolm Rowe

How to Get Here

Take the tube (Victoria, District and Circle lines) or bus (multiple routes, including the 38 and 73 from the West End) to Victoria Station, and we're 3 minutes' walk from the station.

What to Do When You Get Here

When you arrive, in the main ground floor reception, tell the receptionist that you're visiting Google. You register there, then take the lift to the 5^th floor, where you can sign in to the Google reception; when you arrive up there, please ask for the Open Source Jam event.