hover.in presenting at Erlang Factory London 2009

We are extremely thrilled to announce that hover.in will be presenting at Erlang Factory’s London Conference to be held between June 25-26th 2009.

List of speakers
http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/SFBayAreaErlangFactory2009/speakers

List of talks
http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/London2009/talks

Abstract of the talk : Erlang at hover.in

From our experiences at ‘hover.in‘ I’d like to present how we first chose erlang late 2007, and got about using it as our bridge across our multi-node cluster. In particular the architectural decisions that went into making our distributed python crawler backend running off mnesia with its sharding & fragmentation strategies for tables that span several millions of rows, load-balancing to our 3-node yaws web servers, tweaks to serve more requests, trade-offs in efficiency vs cost, experiments in DHT’s,  our cache worker implementations  & messaging queues, cron’s & dispatching jobs while  throwing light on design choices that can fit in distributed and heterogeneous environments. We have also recently built and intend to opensource our own in-memory cache workers, persistent stats & logging system, and in the process of now deploying an A/B testing framework,  that we’d love to talk about. The talk will also bring in some interesting metaphors from bacteria and its group dynamics, as well as the human brain in handling concurrency & memory.

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All in all - we’re very excited to push the realms of both erlang, as well as the functional programming scene in India, and looking forward to share and learn form other erlang legends, developers, enthusiasts, and startups at the Erlang Factory - so do ping me if you are in the neighborhood.

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