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Brian Degenhardt, Works on Core Systems Libraries at Twitter

Brian Degenhardt

Biography: Brian Degenhardt

Brian Degenhardt has founded a successful startup, worked on console game development, written code that ran in the space shuttle, and scaled serving infrastructures on Pentium 2s in the late 90's. He currently works on Core Systems Libraries at Twitter, lured by their scalability challenges and use of functional programming.

Twitter: @bmdhacks

Presentation: Real-Time Systems at Twitter

Track: Design to Exceed the Limit - High Scalable Architectures / Time: Friday 10:20 - 11:10 / Location: Fleming

Twitter operates a service at a scale that is rarely seen. Over the past three years, Twitter has been constantly remodeling itself from a single application into a services-centric system. Through this, we've learned a series of lessons that can be applied to any application or service that is preparing for growth. This presentation talks about the lessons that Twitter learned in managing a high rate of change and complexity, and how those can be applied anywhere.