Todd Lipcon
Software Engineer, Cloudera
Cloudera
Todd Lipcon comes to Cloudera from Amie Street, where he
worked on infrastructure, operations, data mining, and product
development. At Amie Street, Todd helped develop several core backend
products in Erlang, and developed and contributed Erlang bindings to
the Apache Thrift project. At Cloudera, Todd continues to contribute to
Thrift, and hacks on Erlang-based distributed systems in his spare time.
Todd Lipcon is Giving the Following Talks
Building Multi-Language Web Architectures using Erlang and Thrift
Erlang was designed to make building reliable, correct, and highly
available systems easy, but struggles in other areas like string
processing, templating, and the widespread availability of useful
libraries for web development. Other languages like PHP, Python, and
Ruby excel in their ability to quickly develop web applications, but,
lacking features like hot code upgrade, strong multi-threading support,
and built-in multi-node distribution, are not well suited to developing
highly available stateful server applications. In this talk I will
describe Apache Thrift, a project that provides an RPC and
serialization framework that has bindings in many languages, including
Erlang, PHP, Ruby, Python, C++, and Java. I will describe some
real-world architectures and show some quick examples of how using
Thrift to combine Erlang with other languages is a boon for web
development.
