Build & maintain complex distributed systems
October 1–2, 2017: Training
October 2–4, 2017: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY
Tyler McMullen

Tyler McMullen
CTO, Fastly

@tbmcmullen

Tyler McMullen is CTO of Fastly, where he is responsible for the system architecture and leads the company’s technology vision. As part of the founding team, Tyler built the first versions of Fastly’s instant purging system, API, and real-time analytics. Previously, Tyler worked on text analysis and recommendations at Scribd. A self-described technology curmudgeon, Tyler has experience in everything from web design to kernel development and loathes all of it. Especially distributed systems.

Sessions

2:25pm–3:05pm Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Building a skyscraper with Legos: The anatomy of a distributed system
Distributed Systems
 Location: Regent
Tyler McMullen (Fastly)
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Many words have been spilled about distributed systems. Most of the time though, what we talk about are algorithms and techniques. But the practical realities of distributed systems are far from straightforward. Tyler McMullen outlines a new approach built to perform very high volumes of health checks across a cluster of machines for reliability and scalability. Read more.