Online Webinar
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Category C Free
Presented by : O’Reilly® Webcasts

Date: This event took place live on January 12 2011

NOTE: This is a senior technical presentation – There is good information within the presentation about hiring the correct staff to accomplish complex distributing systems

Building distributed systems is painful. Many organizations are approaching the point where their data and application infrastructures are being run on many servers (in the cloud or datacenter). Our software practices don’t reflect that, often with disastrous results. This talk is a collection of scalability principles, anecdotes and practices from experts (and personal experience) from engineering, operations, and business perspectives.

About Bradford Stephens

Bradford Stephens (LinkedIn profile) is Founder and CEO of Drawn to Scale, who created Spire, a distributed database with real-time queries and fulltext search. His passion for scalability is reflected in many talks at conferences, articles, and on the Program Committee for O’Reilly and GigaOm conferences. Bradford also spent time at Microsoft (SQL Server team), in politics (Presidential and U.S. House campaign manager), and music (metal guitar). He holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Political Science. His blog on scalability can be found at roadtofailure.com, and is @LusciousPear on Twitter.

PDU Category C documentation details:

Process Groups: Executing

Knowledge Areas: 4- Integration 9 – Human Resources

• 4.3 Direct and Monitor Project Execution
• 9.3 Develop Project Team
• 9.4 Manage Project Team

As a Category C ‘Self Directed Learning Activity’ remember to document your learning experience and its relationship to project management for your ‘PDU Audit Trail Folder’

Click to view How to Decrease the Pain in Building Distributed Systems