Presentation: "Webmachine: a practical executable model of HTTP"

Time: Friday 14:05 - 15:05

Location: St James’s Suite, Fourth Floor

Abstract:
Webmachine is a system for easily and declaratively building well-behaved HTTP applications. It is based on a very different execution model than most frameworks, with sets of resources defined by collections of functional predicates over those resources. This aproach makes it easy to focus on writing the core of your application and also helps you to get the harder parts of HTTP right. Justin will discuss Webmachine's unusual Web programming model and demonstrate the simplicity and power that this model provides.
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Justin Sheehy, CTO of Basho Technologies

 Justin  Sheehy
Justin Sheehy is the CTO of Basho Technologies, the company behind the creation of Webmachine and Riak. Most recently before Basho, he was a principal scientist at the MITRE Corporation and a senior architect for systems infrastructure at Akamai. At both of those companies he focused on multiple aspects of robust distributed systems, including scheduling algorithms, language-based formal models, and resilience.