Mark Brown / How to build high-performance distributed applications in the cloud

Presenter:
Mark is a nearly 20 year Microsoft veteran and has worked on a myriad of products and services during that time in a variety of roles. Currently, Mark is a Program Manager on the Azure Cosmos DB team and manages the replication and consistency features for this service.

Session description:
Developing highly available applications in the cloud that respond with extremely low latency while maintaining consistent views of data in a distributed environment is a challenging problem. In this session, we will explore the challenges and trade-offs imposed by CAP and PACELC Theorem on building distributed applications and demonstrate the relationship between availability, latency, and consistency in a distributed environment. This session will help you understand how to design for high availability and performance with real-world benchmarks you can take and use yourself.