How Bytemark built a cloud hosting system without buzzwords
By Matthew Bloch
Date: Saturday, 24 November 2012 11:50
Duration: 20 minutes
Target audience: Any
Language: English
Tags: architecture bigv kvm linux network spof
You can find more information on the speaker's site:
- Talk: http://bigv.io
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.
Attended by: Tom Molesworth, Oleg Komarov (komarov), Aaron Crane (arc), Avi Greenbury (BigRedS), Tony Bedford, Mark Norman Francis, Pete Houston, Neil Kirsopp, Anthony Shaper, Jonas Weismueller (MrRagga), Nicholas Clark, cjbradford, James Aitken (LoonyPandora), Tom Hukins, Christopher Hanna (Chad), Alexandru Strajeriu (Deluxaran), osfameron, David Cantrell (DrHyde), Chris Jack, Tudor Constantin, Colin Campbell, Johnathan Swan, Adam Taylor (adam-_-), M Walker, Andy Jones, Peter Haworth (pmh1wheel), Andrew Solomon (illy), Merlyn Kline, Hugh Barnard, fifi,
