DPC11: Distributed Systems Tutorial
We’re sharing a series of posts from our developers who attended DPC 2011, telling us about their experiences of the event. For the morning of tutorial day, I chose to attend Think like an ant, distribute the workload, given by Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson. Helgi is a former Ibuildings colleague and now a bigshot at Orchestra.io. [...]
We’re sharing a series of posts from our developers who attended DPC 2011, telling us about their experiences of the event.
For the morning of tutorial day, I chose to attend Think like an ant, distribute the workload, given by Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson. Helgi is a former Ibuildings colleague and now a bigshot at Orchestra.io. I’m happy to see he’s doing well. His presentation started off explaining to us why distributing can be a good thing by pointing out three significant aspects: budget, efficiency and perception.