Practicalities of Productionizing Distributed Systems (Jeff Hodges) - RICON West 2013

Discussing the latest in consensus protocols and distributed databases is extremely sexy, but how do we get those things into production? This talk discusses tactics and strategy for productionizing distributed systems with a little bit about what the future will hold.

About Jeff

Jeff Hodges is a distributed systems engineer at Twitter, Inc. Currently writing code for the web server fronting all of Twitter's web traffic, Jeff has previously fought spam (and other darker aspects of social media), worked on basic storage and infrastructure, and sometimes enjoys being on-call. He recently wrote Notes on Distributed Systems for Young Bloods to give friends and coworkers a leg-up on stuff he wished he had known years ago.

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