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

Andrew Rodland
Senior Backend Engineer, Video Systems, Vimeo

Andrew Rodland is a senior backend engineer for video systems at Vimeo. For over a decade, Andrew has been mixing the chocolate of dev in the peanut butter of ops. Previously, he was a developer at Shutterstock. Andrew has spoken at (and organized streaming video for) prominent Perl conferences and contributed some cool stuff to CPAN.

Sessions

1:30pm–2:10pm Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Load balancing, consistent hashing, and locality
Networking, Traffic, and Edge Management, Systems Engineering
 Location: Nassau
Andrew Rodland (Vimeo)
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Serving a billion requests per day with a dynamic video packager makes unique demands on a load balancer. Andrew Rodland shares a new consistent hashing algorithm developed by Google researchers that helped improve cache locality and optimize delivery—and made a contribution to open source software in the process. Read more.