Miriam Pena is giving the keynote 'War Stories: Scaling Distributed Systems' at EMPEX LA
February 02, 2019 9:35am PST
In this talk, Miriam will describe how the distribution model works in Erlang, and when/how you should take advantage of it –or not! Spiced up with real-life war stories…
Miriam loves to architect distributed, scalable, high performance, high concurrency, and high availability systems. Bonus point if they are written in Erlang/Elixir. She is a Staff Engineer at AdRoll, designing critical parts of their AdServers/RTB infrastructure and organizer of the Erlang and Elixir meetup in San Francisco. Prior to AdRoll, she provided Erlang specialized consultancy and studied Computer Science Engineering from La Coruña University in Spain. Voted one of the women to watch in 2018 by Women 2.0. She published some open source libraries such as mero, a scalable and lightweight client for Memcached and Spillway for load shedding.
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