by Jozef Van Eenbergen
1 September 2014
Providing Scalability for Pirates, Lizards and Zombies
DevOps Exchange London: Jozef will talk about building a new generation of distributed services framework called Amanda at MPC. This talk gives a behind the scenes look at how art assets get processed at scale. And like all good talks it includes plenty of metrics!
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