NYLUG Presents: Blake Matheny on Open Source at Facebook (Aug 26, 2015)
Channel: NYLUG
Date: 2015-09-15

The infrastructure team at Facebook supports 1.4+ billion monthly active users making millions of requests per second globally across 5 data centers and more than 30 edge POP locations. Achieving this level of scale has only been made possible by leveraging and contributing to open source. In this talk Blake will discuss how Facebook infrastructure has successfully leveraged open source, from hardware to software. Blake will primarily focus on the load balancing infrastructure, the open compute project, and the Linux kernel. Blake will also briefly touch on some of our other open source initiatives such as HHVM, RocksDB, and Presto. This talk should be interesting to those who are passionate about open source, large scale systems, or the Linux kernel.

Speaker Bio:

Blake Matheny is an Engineering Director at Facebook where he is responsible for systems including the Linux Kernel as well as the Load Balancing infrastructure serving over a billion users and many millions of requests per second. Blake has been working on large scale distributed systems for more than ten years, and is currently enamored with C++11, approaches to asynchronous computation, and scheduling algorithms. Although formerly from NYC, Blake currently lives in California with a cat that hates him, his wife, and their collection of books. You can follow Blake at http://fb.me/blake.r.matheny or @bmatheny.