Velocity 2011: Artur Bergman, "Artur on SSD's"

Artur Bergman (Wikia/Fastly),
Artur Bergman, hacker and technologist at-large, is the VP of Engineering and Operations at Wikia. He provides the technical backbone necessary for Wikia's mission to compile and index the world's knowledge. He is also an enthusiastic apologist for federated identity and a board member of the OpenID Foundation. In past lives, he's built high volume financial trading systems, re-implemented Perl 5's threading system, wrote djabberd, managed LiveJournal's engineering team, and served as operations architect at Six Apart. His current interests extend to encompass semantic search, large scale infrastructure, open source development, federated instant messaging, neurotransmitters, and the future of cyborgs.

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Science & Technology

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• oreilly
• oreillymedia
• velocityconf
• webops
• devops
• web performance

[rphaedrus]

But I like bicycles.

[jwaterburysnout]

And he can't do the math about how SSD drives cost 30 times as much as rotating magnetic drives for the same capacity.

[jwaterburysnout]

This guy can't do math about boot times. And nobody can understand his rambling, poorly-constructed sentences.

[sedoppio]

Haha, hilarious :D

[dr34m3r2k]

@rudiedirkx :rolleyes:

[Danny77uk]

There really was no need for all the swearing. Not professional and not an effective way to get your point across.

[rudiedirkx]

They're not disks. (Last sence by Other Guy.)

[ericisfastly]

Artur is now CEO at fastly.com

[DavisHoffman]

First