Build Systems that Drive Business
June 11–12, 2018: Training
June 12–14, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
San Jose, CA
Kyle Kingsbury

Kyle Kingsbury
Principal, Jepsen

Website

Kyle Kingsbury, aka Aphyr, is a computer safety researcher and independent consultant. He’s the author of the Riemann monitoring system, the Clojure from the Ground Up introduction to programming, and the Jepsen series on distributed systems correctness. He grills databases in the American Midwest.

Sessions

9:05am–9:35am Thursday, June 14, 2018
Jepsen 9: The center cannot hold
Location: Grand Ballroom 220
Kyle Kingsbury (Jepsen)
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 10 ratings)
Kyle Kingsbury explores anomalies in three distributed systems—Tendermint, Hazelcast, and Aerospike—and shares general strategies for correctness testing using Jepsen, a distributed system testing harness that applies property-based testing to databases to verify their correctness claims during common failure modes: network partitions, process crashes, and clock skew. Read more.
3:40pm–4:20pm Thursday, June 14, 2018
Improving performance with Tesser
Distributed Systems
 Location: LL21 A/B Level: Intermediate
Secondary topics: Resilient, Performant & Secure Distributed Systems
Kyle Kingsbury (Jepsen)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 3 ratings)
Kyle Kingsbury offers an overview of Tesser, a Clojure library for writing commutative, parallel folds that can be chained and composed into complex single-pass reductions that are dramatically faster on multicore systems and can be transparently distributed over Hadoop. Read more.