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Dan Pritchett, eBay Architect

Dan Pritchett, eBay Architect

Dan Pritchett is a Technical Fellow at eBay where he has been a member of the architecture team for the past four years. In this role, Dan interfaces with the strategy, business, product and technology teams across eBay Marketplaces, PayPal and Skype. Dan has been at eBay since 2001 and has made significant contributions to various business critical initiatives at eBay, including the migration of attributes and catalogs to the V3 marketplace platform, the implementation of eBay's Global Billing System, and the introduction of reliable asynchronous processing to the eBay platform. With over 20 years of experience at technology companies such as Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard and Silicon Graphics, Dan has an extensive depth of technical experience, ranging from network-level protocols and operating systems to systems design and software patterns.

Dan has a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Missouri, Rolla. He lives in San Jose, Ca. with his wife and two daughters. He likes to spend his free time coaching at Willow Glen Little League and tinkering with cantankerous old British cars.

Presentation: "Architect for Latency"

Time: Thursday 11:00 - 12:00

Location: Metropolitan I

Abstract:

Latency. The time it takes packets to flow from one part of the world to another. Everyone knows it exists. The second fallacy of distributed computing is "Latency is zero". Yet so many designs attempt to work around latency instead of embracing it. This is unfortunate and in fact doesn't work for large-scale systems.

This presentation will address how latency impacts a distributed system architecture and provide techniques for making the architecture more resilient to latency.

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Presentation: "Panel: "You must eat an elephant one bite at a time"."

Time: Thursday 17:15 - 18:15

Location: Metropolitan I

Abstract:
"You must eat an elephant one bite at a time.
- African Proverb"

But where should we take the first bite in the design of an architecture?

Presentation: "Introduction: Architectures you've always wondered about"

Time: Friday 09:00 - 09:15

Location: Metropolitan I

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