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AGENDA: HPTS October 7-10, 2007

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Sunday, October 7, 2007

Time Activity Location
3:00pm HPTS registration begins Main Hall
6:00pm Dinner Crocker Dining Hall
7:00pm HPTS Reception: Beer, Wine 'n BS Chapel

* Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner are held in Crocker Dining Hall.


Monday, October 8, 2007

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Time Activity/Subject
7:30am Breakfast
Architectures for Scalable Web Services
8:30am

Welcome to HPTS - Peter and Pat

8:45am

A Google Engineer’s Toolkit: GFS, BigTable, and MapReduce - Andrew Fikes, Google

9:30am

Scaling a Web-Based Active/Active Payments System - Rene Aeberhard, PayPal

10:00am Break
Operations and Infrastructure
10:30am

Writing Efficient to Operate Internet-Scale Services - James Hamilton, Microsoft

11:00am

eBay’s Next Generation Application and Presentation Infrastructure - Vijay Raghavendra , eBay

11:30am

“Grid” Computing and Large-Scale Transaction Systems (at Yahoo!) - Eric Baldeschwieler, Yahoo!

12:00pm Lunch
Scalable Systems
1:30pm

Keep It Sparse, Keep It in Memory - Jon Ruggiero, Workday

2:00pm

Plug Your Code in Here - Todd McKinnon, Salesforce

2:30pm

Rightnow Architecture - Mike Myer, Rightnow

3:00pm Break
Service Platform Applications
3:30pm

The Flywheel Transaction Processing System - Matt Youill, Betfair

4:00pm

Modular Datacenter Design - James Hamilton, Microsoft

4:30pm

Open Discussion - Group

5:00pm Break
6:00pm Dinner
7:30pm Poster Sessions - Shel Finkelstein
9:30pm HPTS Social - Beer, Wine 'n BS continued...

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

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Time Activity/Subject
7:30am Breakfast
8:30am

It's Time for a Complete Rewrite - Mike Stonebraker, MIT

9:30am

The Layers Above: Next Programming Models for Enterprise Software - Vishal Sikka, SAP

10:00am Break
Databases, Search, and Related Stuff
10:30am

Database Indices: Who Needs 'Em? All Queries Are Text! - Bruce Lindsay, IBM

11:00am

Lucene Database Architecture - Doug Cutting, Yahoo!

11:30am

MarkLogic Server: Not Your Grandmother’s XML Database - Ron Avnur, Mark Logic

12:00pm Lunch
RIAs: Rich Internet Applications
1:30pm

Silverlight: Bringing .NET to Your Browser - Shanku Niyogi, Microsoft

2:00pm

Enterprise and Collaborative RIAs with AIR and LiveCycle ES - Charlton Barreto, Adobe

2:30pm

Zimbra: a Web/AJAX Application - Scott Dietzen, Zimbra

3:00pm Break
Miscellaneous Fun Talks
3:30pm

Millicomputing - Adrian Cockcroft, NetFlix

4:00pm

Erlang plus BDB: Disrupting the Conventional Web Wisdo - Margo Seltzer, Oracle

4:30pm

Living without Transactions - Aaron Brashears, Second Life

5:00pm Break
6:00pm Dinner
7:30pm

Tribute to Jim Gray

9:30pm

Stay and Visit Together


Wednesday, October 10, 2007

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Time Activity/Subject
7:30am Breakfast
The Disruptive Changes in Hardware
8:30am

Hardware Trends - Dave Patterson, UC Berkeley

9:10am

Software Implications of the Trends - Burton Smith, Microsoft

9:50am

Discussion and Q&A - Dave and Burton

10:00am Break
Service Oriented Architectures
10:30am

The Irresistible Forces Meet the Im-Movable Objects - Pat Helland, Microsoft

11:00am

SOA What? The Line between Data and Processes Is Blurry - Mike Carey, BEA

11:30am

Lessons for High Performance Services - Al Spector, Independent

12:00pm Lunch