Matthew Bloch: How Bytemark built a cloud hosting system without buzzwords
Matthew Bloch from Bytemark explains how his company have built a commercial software platform for marshalling thousands of virtual machines. BigV is a single software platform suitable for a large hosting company, and is based on Linux, KVM, lots of large servers and a conservative networking architecture. He'll focus on the data and messaging decisions his team made to build a reliable distributed system, but without any of the traditional distributed system headaches. They have re-embraced single points of failure, borrowed ideas from half-remembered academic papers, and have been unafraid to reinvent wheels. The results have been high up time, and Matthew will go over the system's failures and lessons learned during its 2-year beta test. This video was recorded at the London Perl Workshop (the United Kingdom's Perl Workshop) on 24th November 2012.
Matthew Bloch from Bytemark explains how his company have built a commercial software platform for marshalling thousands of virtual machines. BigV is a single software platform suitable for a large hosting company, and is based on Linux, KVM, lots of large servers and a conservative networking architecture. He'll focus on the data and messaging decisions his team made to build a reliable distributed system, but without any of the traditional distributed system headaches. They have re-embraced single points of failure, borrowed ideas from half-remembered academic papers, and have been unafraid to reinvent wheels. The results have been high up time, and Matthew will go over the system's failures and lessons learned during its 2-year beta test. This video was recorded at the London Perl Workshop (the United Kingdom's Perl Workshop) on 24th November 2012.