Presentation: "StubHub: Scaling and Innovating at the World's Largest Ticket Marketplace"

Time: Wednesday 15:35 - 16:35

Location: Metropolitan Ballroom II & III

Abstract: Stubhub is the largest live event ticket marketplace in the world. A key to our continued growth has been our ability to create innovative ticket and event “finding” experiences, on our site, on affiliate sites, and most recently, on mobile devices. This was all done using open source technologies such as SOLR, ActiveMQ, and CXF, along with a little XSL and some home grown magic. During a typical hour, we serve more than half a million complex pages on our site, in addition to more than 2 million API calls powering widgets on affiliate sites across the web. In this talk, Charlie will present the basic building blocks (as well as some stumbling blocks) that support the continuing evolution of StubHub.

Charlie Fineman, Head of architecture for StubHub

Charlie Fineman Charlie runs the architecture group at StubHub where he’s been for the past 6 years. Charlie has always been fascinated by tools, languages, and system software… especially in support of the construction of parallel and distributed software. Only after stints at his university (go Tartans!), NASA Ames, and Sun Microsystems did he finally try his hand at building actual applications for end users.