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Summly: An Award Winning Mobile App's Journey to the Cloud with Five-9s Availability on a Shoestring Budget

Summly: An Award Winning Mobile App's Journey to the Cloud with Five-9s Availability on a Shoestring Budget

Location: 
Seacliff C/D
Time: 
Tuesday, 4:05pm - 4:55pm
Abstract: 

Summly became the topmost news app in 25 iOS markets worldwide in less than 3 weeks after launch and Yahoo! snapped its dev team to inject the development know-how into its own mobile operations. This presentation describes the steps that led to the app's inception, development, launch, and evolution.   The talk will also dive into the architectural choices and servers configuration, database, and caching systems that enabled Summly to achieve Five-9-Availability with deployments across transcontinental availability zones.

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Eugene Ciurana is an open source contributor and evangelist, entrepreneur, and author based in Moscow and San Francisco who specializes in agile development of robust, highly scalable systems. He's led the design and implementation of mission-critical, high performance, and Big Data systems for many industry leading organizations such as Summly, Walmart.com, AT&T, LeapFrog Enterprises, JP Morgan Chase, Credit Suisse, Badoo, Oracle, Bank of America, National Oilwell Varco, IBM, and various startups in Russia, the Ukraine, western Europe, Japan, and Silicon Valley. As an engineering senior principal at Yahoo, Inc. he's leading the design and development of a highly scalable semantic web system to feed a new generation of mobile and web applications. Eugene is often found mentoring other developers in the ##java, #python, #awk, #R, #iphonedev, and #security channels on Freenode IRC under the /nick pr3d4t0r.