Flavio Junqueira is a Senior Research Scientist with Yahoo Research and leads the Scalable Computing group in Barcelona, Spain. He holds a PhD degree from University of California San Diego (UCSD) in computer science. His main research interest is distributed systems and algorithms, and he has focused on topics such as dependability, concurrency, and replication. He has additionally worked on projects related to the modeling of failures and vulnerabilities, systems for Web search, and storage systems. He is the recipient of awards and nominations, such as the CSE Department best PhD dissertation award, a nomination to the ACM PhD Dissertation award, and best paper awards at ACM CIKM 2009… and USENIX ATC 2010. He actively contributes to open source projects, such as Hadoop, ZooKeeper, BookKeeper, and S4 hosted by the Apache Software Foundation.
Benjamin Reed is a Software Engineer at Facebook working on all things small. His previous positions include Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo! Research (working on all things big) and Research Staff Member (working on the big and the small) at IBM Almaden Research. The University of California, Santa Cruz granted him a PhD in computer science. He has worked in the areas of distributed computing, big data processing, distributed storage, systems management, and embedded frameworks. He participated in various open source projects such as Hadoop and Linux. He helped start the Pig, Zookeeper, and BookKeeper projects hosted by the Apache Software Foundation.