Michael Laing Systems Architect New York Times Great Wide Open 2016 Atlanta, GA March 16th, 2016

2. Michael Laing
Architect, Edge Engineering
New York Times
michael.laing@nytimes.com

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13. A Global Mesh with a Memory
Millions of users
Dozens of
internal clients

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27. Messages

28. Async
Scope

30. Time
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31. Time
P C CP
Idle
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Idle
latency

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40. Database
Semantics
For access

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44. Push Pull
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49. Written in C

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NSQ

53. NSQ

54. Push Pull
snd rcv
NSQ
What if…

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Then:

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Becomes:

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69. “Mobile is about moments, shorter and more
fragmented. It’s important we string these
together,” said Paul Muret, the vice president for
display, video and analytics at Google.
“We need to understand the desires of
consumers in each point in time to understand
their context and intent.”

71. • SQL considered harmful for global
online distributed systems
• Web is dead
• Mobile is maturing
• The excitement: Things & Events

72. …a design pattern that captures all
changes to an application's state as
a sequence of events…

73. …synchronizes in distributed
systems around the concept of
optimistic concurrency…

74. Characteristics
• Multi-user
• Distributed
Globally
• Clients can
disconnect
Implementation
• Message Bus
• NoSQL

81. Michael Laing
Architect, Edge Engineering
New York Times
michael.laing@nytimes.com