Speaker: Murat Demirbas
Principal Research Scientist @MongoDB Research, Previously Principal Applied Scientist @AWS and a Professor of Computer Science at the University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Murat Demirbas is a Principal Research Scientist at MongoDB Research. Before joining MongoDB, he was a Principal Applied Scientist at AWS for 3 years, and a Professor of Computer Science at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) for 16 years. His work spans distributed systems and databases, with contributions to hybrid logical clocks, WPaxos, PigPaxos, and Paxos Quorum Reads. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2008 and the UB School of Engineering Senior Researcher of the Year Award in 2016. Murat writes a widely read blog on distributed systems at http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com, with over 5.6 million views.
Session
Parting the Clouds: The Rise of Disaggregated Systems
Cloud systems are undergoing an architectural shift. Traditional shared-nothing designs struggle to deliver the elasticity, availability, and operational simplicity that the cloud demands.
Date
Monday Nov 17 / 01:35PM PST ( 50 minutes )
Location
Ballroom A
