GlusterFS presentation @LSPE-IN, Yahoo!

Last  Saturday on 14th September’13 I gave on GlusterFS presentation at LSPE-IN. The title for the presentation was Performance Characterization in Large distributed file system with GlusterFS . Few days before the talk I looked at the attendee list to get  the feel of the audience. I felt  that not many of them have used GlusterFS by now. So I decided rather than covering lots of performance part I should cover the concepts of GlusterFS and talk about the performance challenges which can be there by design like file-system in user-space etc.

I am glad I did that as there were only 4 folks from ~70 attendees who have used GlusterFS before.

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By going through the concepts the audience were able to compare GlusterFS with other solutions in the market. They asked interesting question about hashing algorithm, replication etc.

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I attended the meetup till lunch. Other than giving the presentation I attended a keynote on Challenges in scaling cloud storage  by Srivibhavan (Vibhav) Balaram in which he talked about the challenges in cloud storage and  QoS in cloud environment. I also attended “Scaling using event driven programming with Perl, A tutorial”  Aveek Mishra.

This was again a very informative and well managed event. I’ll look forward to attend and present in future meet-ups.

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