The Educators' and Trainers' Symposium provides a forum for academic and industry professionals who have a vested interest in technology education and training. This one-day event is a unique opportunity for these individuals to come together and discuss their ideas on how to translate existing and future software development methods, practices and theory into courses, curricula, and training plans.
Robert Johnson discusses Facebook’s approach to scalability issues resulting from a large growth of the user base. He talks about: why one needs to prepare for horizontal and not vertical scalability, very short release cycles which are better because they introduce fewer bugs, the need to streamline to deploying process for short release cycles, and making the entire process faster every day.
Watch the video on InfoQ.
More HighlightsWilliam R. Cook,
UT Austin chair@splashcon.org
Martin Rinard, MIT program@splashcon.org
October 17 TO 21 John Ascuaga's Nugget Reno/Tahoe Nevada, USA
