Raghu Ramakrishnan
Chief Scientist, Audience & Cloud ComputingYahoo! Inc.
Cloud Computing @ Yahoo!
Ag
ility
& In
nova
tion
Quality & Stability
Why Clouds?
• Abstraction & Innovation• Developers focus on
apps, not infrastructure
• Scale & Availability• Cloud services should
do the heavy lifting
Yahoo! is Perfect for Cloud Computing
HUNDREDSOF PROPERTIES / PRODUCTS
600MUNIQUE USERS / MONTH
300M+YAHOO! MAIL USERS / MONTH
HUNDREDSOF PETABYTES OF STORAGE
BILLIONSOF OBJECTS STORED
PETABYTESOF TRAFFIC DAILY
Inside Yahoo!’s Cloud
Advertising Optimization
& Delivery
Content Optimization
Search Index
Image/Video Storage &Delivery
Yahoo!’s Cloud Use Case
RSS Feeds
Caching, Load Balancing
Machine Learning
(e.g. Spam filters)
New in 2010!
• SIGMOD and SIGOPS are starting a new annual conference, to be co-located alternately with SIGMOD and SOSP:
ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC)
PC Chairs: Surajit Chaudhuri & Mendel Rosenblum
• Steering committee: Phil Bernstein, Ken Birman, Joe Hellerstein, John Ousterhout, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Doug Terry, John Wilkes