Computer Systems Laboratory Colloquium
4:15PM, Wednesday, February 16, 2000
NEC Auditorium, Gates Computer Science Building B03
Lessons from Giant-Scale Services
Eric A. Brewer
UC Berkeley & Inktomi
About the talk:
The last five years has seen an incredible rise in the
use of infrastructure services; Yahoo! has over 400M
page views per day, Inktomi handles more than 1B searches
per month, and AOL users visit over 4B pages per day through
AOL's caching infrastructure.
These are giant-scale services and they represent the
broad movement of capabilities into the infrastructure.
This new class of systems present extreme challenges
for scalability, availability, and online evolution.
In this talk, I attempt to define this space, show
how some of the problems have been solved,
and provide some new ways to think about these problems.
About the speaker:
Dr. Brewer is a professor at UC Berkeley, where he focuses
on Internet infrastructure, security, and mobile computing.
In 1996, he co-founded Inktomi, which provides scalable
applications for the Internet, including search engines,
network products, and e-commerce solutions. He is a
Sloan Fellow, an Okawa Fellow, a Global Leader for Tomorrow
(World Economic Forum), and a member for Forbes "E-Gang"
of 12 mavericks of Internet.
Contact information:
Eric Brewer
623 Soda Hall
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776
510-642-8143
brewer@cs.berkeley.edu