Ben Maurer

Systems at Facebook Scale 02-27-2015 @ 10:00 - 11:00

Ben Maurer — Ben Maurer is the tech lead of the Web Foundation team at Facebook which is responsible for the overall performance and reliability of Facebook's user facing products. Ben joined Facebook in 2010 as a member of the infrastructure team. Ben studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon University where, he co-founded reCAPTCHA with Luis von Ahn.

Behind it's infrastructure serving 1 billion users, the systems abstractions that Facebook uses provide performance and stability for it's services.

Ben Maurer will discuss some of the techniques that have made Facebook efficient and reliable ranging from preventing outages with smart queuing to optimizing memory usage for modern processors.


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