Meetup #2: January 11th @ Skroutz. Call for presentations. about athens HOT 4 CLOSED

Hello.
I propose Chord: A scalable peer-to-peer lookup service for internet applications paper.
This 2001 paper has over 13K (!) citations in "google schoolar" and is considered to be one of the most influential architectures in Distributed Systrems.

While originally designed with P2P in mind, evolutions of Its architecture (Distributed Hash Table based) are the at the core of many modern (and old) NoSQL systems: Cassandra, Amazon's Dynamo, Riak, Voldemord, etc. Not to mention that it single-handendly brought P2P file-sharing to the 21st century by proviting the indexing service for BitTorrent.

What I propose is a presentation of the architecture and protocol, with a verbal explanation of its application in the P2P era.
If we have time after the presentation we could talk about how subsequently Dynamo (one of the first dstributed Key-Value storage systems) brought DHTs in the datacenter, staring the NoSQL boom.

About Me:
I am a backend software engineer, working at Skroutz's Search team.
Formelly I was a PhD candidate studying Distributed Systems in NTUA's CSLab.
I have Implemented a version of Chord in my pre-graduate studies and it is precisely that assignment (and course) that convinced me to start studing about Distributed Systems in general, therefore beeing a big infuence on me.

from athens.

Hey there,

I could do a small intro on the Meltdown and Spectre attacks as these are described in their papers, found on https://meltdownattack.com.

Papers are well written, so I'm not thinking of a full-blown presentation, something short just to get people acclimated to the techniques used in these attacks, why I liked these papers and what to do from now on.

Time-wise I'd say max 15-20 minutes after the Chord presentation, no slides, just talking and mayyybe some drawing on a whiteboard.

About Me:
I'm a Site Reliability Engineer/Sysadmin, working for Kentik's ops team.

from athens.

That's great then! @cmantas and @costasd I'll update the meet up event as soon as possible and we'll be in touch for the details. Thank you all!

from athens.

@costasd I found this to offer concise information on the matter. Maybe it could help on your talk

from athens.