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Steven Parkes

smparkes.net llc

Steven Parkes is an independent software developer in Palo Alto, California. He has been involved in concurrent object oriented programming for many years (his graduate thesis was on an Actor library in C++) . He currently specializes in high-reliability design for backend systems.

Sessions

1:30pm Tuesday, 07/22/2008

An Introduction to Actors for Performance, Scalability, and Resilience

Programming, Tutorial
Location: D139/140

Steven Parkes (smparkes.net llc) Moderated by: Steven Parkes

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In this tutorial, we introduce actors and show how they can be used to implement systems that can utilize multiple cores for performance, distribute across multiple machines for scale, and survive various kinds of failures for resiliency. We follow a demonstration application and implement it in Erlang and Dramatis, an actor library for dynamic languages. Read more.