Capacity Planning for a Private Cloud, by Goranka Bjedov
From small rented space in a cool of San Francisco data center to a series of large scale privately owned spaces around the world, Facebook grew its infrastructure as fast as it grew its user base. This presentation will focus on lessons learned from that period of hyper-growth: what went well, what was learned from the mistakes and what are the things that I learned during the most interesting and challenging job I ever had.
ABOUT GORANKA
Known for her technical achievements and her refreshing wit, Goranka Bjedov worked as a capacity engineer at Facebook where she was responsible for making sure there are enough servers to handle everything Facebook users want to post, upload, find or otherwise engage with. Most of her time was spent analyzing performance and assessing risks. Her industry career also included a performance engineering position at Google, Network Appliance and AT&T Labs. Prior to joining industry, Goranka was a tenured faculty at Schools of Engineering at Purdue University, teaching mostly programming classes and conducting research in large-scale computer parallelism. Right now, her time is spent walking and biking different trails around the world. And, when she is back in Silicon Valley, she frequently talks to and consults/advised a number of different startups, working in areas of machine learning, mobile development, performance engineering and health related advances.