SPLASH is pleased to announce the availability of scholarships for educators from 2- and 4-year colleges and universities to participate in SPLASH 2010 and its Educators' and Trainers' Symposium. These scholarships are sponsored by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN).
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
