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<div>Tonight, at 7pm in 1145 EB, ACM hosts Scott Long, an engineer
from Netflix:</div>
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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Scott
Long is a software engineer with 13 years of experience in the
storage and online content industries. Ever since attending
the University of Michigan in the early 1990's, he has been
avid user and advocate of open source software, and has been a
member of the FreeBSD development community since 2000. After
spending 5 years leading the OS development team at Yahoo,
Scott moved to Netflix in 2012 to help build the world's
largest content delivery network. Scott graduated from
Metropolitan State University of Denver with a Bachelor of
Science in Aviation Operations and spent a short time in 2011
as a commercial airline pilot.</span><br>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">In his talk, Scott will be
discussing the system behind the world's largest content
delivery network. The abstract is below:</font></div>
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<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Netflix
streams over a billion hours of movies and television shows
world-wide every month, representing 33% of North America's
prime-time internet traffic. To efficiently and
cost-effectively move this massive amount of data, Netflix
developed the OpenConnect Appliance, a FreeBSD-based media
streaming and caching device that forms the building block of
our own content delivery network. This talk will discuss the
OpenConnect Appliance hardware and software, challenges faced
in balancing rapid growth with solid engineering, and the
importance of open source software in modern companies.</span><font
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<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I'll
see you all tonight!</span></div>
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---Chris Heuser, ACM President</span></div>
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