Welcome to RICON East!
RICON is a distributed systems conference by and for engineers, developers, scientists and architects.
This year we'll be headed to New York City, NY
for RICON East.
New York City, NY
VENUE
New World Stages - 340 West 50th St., New York City, NYDATE
May 13th - 14th, 2013This Year's Speakers
Like last year we are committed to delivering a high quality array of talks at RICON East. Talks will concern the theory, practice and importance of running distributed systems in production, featuring speakers from academia to industry.
Alex Payne
CTO, Co-founder Breather Nobody ever got fired for picking Java: evaluating emerging programming languages for business-critical systemsSean Cribbs
Software Engineer Basho Technologies Just Open a Socket - Connecting Applications to Distributed SystemsKyle Kingsbury
Riemann Creator Factual Call Me Maybe: Carly Rae Jepsen and the Perils of Network PartitionsAndy Gross
Chief Architect Basho Technologies Lessons Learned and Questions Raised from Building Distributed SystemsRyan Zezeski
Sr. Software Engineer Basho Technologies Yokozuna: Distributed Search You Don't Think AboutBrian Akins
Senior Principal Architect Turner Broadcasting System Large Scale Data Service as a ServiceMatthew Von-Maszewski
Software Engineer Basho Technologies Optimizing LevelDB for Performance and ScaleSathish Gaddipati
VP of Enterprise Data The Weather Channel Building a Weather Data Services Platform on RiakConference Schedule
TRACK ONE | Day 1 - Stage 4
8:00am - 8:45am | Registration and Breakfast | |
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8:45am - 9:00am | Opening Remarks | Justin Sheehy |
9:00am - 9:45am | Automatically Scalable Computation | Margo Seltzer |
10:00am - 10:45am | Large Scale Data Service as a Service | Brian Akins |
11:00am - 11:45am | Optimizing LevelDB for Performance and Scale | Matthew Von-Maszewski |
12:00pm - 12:45pm | Why Is My Cache So Dumb? Smarter Caching with Pequod | Neha Narula |
Lunch | ||
2:00pm - 2:45pm | Bloom: Big Systems from Small Programs | Neil Conway |
3:00pm - 3:45pm | Just Open a Socket - Connecting Applications to Distributed Systems | Sean Cribbs |
4:00pm - 5:00pm | Lightning Talks | |
7:30pm - 11:30pm | After Party at Hudson Terrace |
TRACK TWO | Day 1 - Stage 2
8:00am - 8:45am | Registration and Breakfast | |
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8:45am - 9:00am | Opening Remarks | Justin Sheehy |
9:00am - 9:45am | Automatically Scalable Computation | Margo Seltzer |
10:00am - 10:45am | ZooKeeper for the Skeptical Architect | Camille Fournier |
11:00am - 11:45am | Scaling Happiness Horizontally | Mark Wunsch |
12:00pm - 12:45pm | Firefighting Riak at Scale | Michajlo Matijkiw |
Lunch | ||
2:00pm - 2:45pm | Riak Enterprise Revisited | Chris Tilt |
3:00pm - 3:45pm | Riak Techniques for Advanced Web & Mobile Application Development | Sunny Gleason |
4:00pm - 5:00pm | Lightning Talks | |
7:30pm - 11:30pm | After Party at Hudson Terrace |
TRACK ONE | Day 2 - Stage 4
8:00am - 9:30am | Breakfast | |
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9:30am - 9:45am | Opening Remarks | Tom Santero |
10:00am - 10:45am | Nobody ever got fired for picking Java: evaluating emerging programming languages for business-critical systems | Alex Payne |
11:00am - 11:45am | High Availability with Riak and PostgreSQL | Shawn Gravelle and Sam Townsend |
12:00pm - 12:45pm | Yokozuna: Distributed Search You Don't Think About | Ryan Zezeski |
Lunch | ||
2:00pm - 2:45pm | Realtime Systems for Social Data Analysis | Hilary Mason |
3:00pm - 3:45pm | Using Datomic with Riak | Rich Hickey |
4:00pm - 5:00pm | Lessons Learned and Questions Raised from Building Distributed Systems | Andy Gross |
TRACK TWO | Day 2 - Stage 2
8:00am - 9:30am | Breakfast | |
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9:30am - 9:45am | Opening Remarks | Tom Santero |
10:00am - 10:45am | Building a Weather Data Services Platform on Riak | Sathish Gaddipati |
11:00am - 11:45am | Call Me Maybe: Carly Rae Jepsen and the Perils of Network Partitions | Kyle Kingsbury |
12:00pm - 12:45pm | How Do You Eat An Elephant? | Theo Schlossnagle and Robert Treat |
Lunch | ||
2:00pm - 2:45pm | Advancing Riak CS | Reid Draper |
3:00pm - 3:45pm | Revolution in Storage | James Hughes |
4:00pm - 5:00pm | Lessons Learned and Questions Raised from Building Distributed Systems | Andy Gross |
Hotels and Venue Info
VENUE
New World Stages
340 West 50th St., New York City, NY
HOTELS NEAR VENUE
Belvedere Hotel
319 West 48th Street,
New York, NY 10036
$229-309, without tax (14.75% in NYC)
Limited rooms (50 reserved), so book before April 12
Group Reference: Basho Technologies
Holiday Inn, Midtown
440 W 57th St. (between 10th Ave & 9th Ave)
New York City, NY 10019
$239, without tax (14.75% in NYC)
Limited rooms (50 reserved), so book before April 12
Group Reference: Ricon East, Block Group Code: XRI