Albert De Jongh and Chris Oloff - Banana for Scale
Channel: ScaleConf
Date: 2015-04-24

Heavily loaded transaction processing systems, struggling clients... Albert and Chris have been faced with scaling challenges like these, and would like to share their experience. They will present some lessons learnt and they’ll explain why bananas were not suitable for scale.

Albert is a software architect at Visa, and has often found himself in war rooms about performance problems. He has stared at way too many thread dumps, trying to make sense of things that just could not have happened.

Chris' goal is to write efficient and well-performing code for small and not-so-small-any-more challenges, since 1994, with existing or news teams. He gained experience in diverse industries like metals, money and energy, and is still learning daily. Chris holds an Honours Degree in Computer Science and Economics from the University of Mannheim, Germany.