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Karl Nilsson

Karl wrestles distributed rabbits for a living

Karl comes from a .NET background (C# / F#) where he worked mostly on distributed systems. He is an avid proponent of functional programming. He is now a Senior Member of Technical Staff at VMware.

Past Activities

Karl Nilsson / Ayanda Dube / John Samuel
Code BEAM V America
12 Mar 2021
10.15 - 10.55

Ask me anything about RabbitMQ

Open session with RabbitMQ contributors - a chance to ask them questions you always wanted about their work.

Ayanda Dube / Karl Nilsson
Code BEAM America 2021
04 Nov 2021
10.50 - 11.15

Fireside chat on RabbitMQ

Discussion on RabbitMQ, it’s usage, design and Erlang implementation aspects. We discuss supported protocols (e.g. AMQP, MQTT) as well as different queue types and their purpose, along with consensus and HA/scalability matters. We discuss the available RabbitMQ toolkits and libraries which the community can adopt for building their own distributed systems.

Karl Nilsson
Code BEAM STO 2019
17 May 2019
13.40 - 14.25

Make a distributed toolbox with Ra

Ra is an implementation of the Raft consensus protocol by Team RabbitMQ. In RabbitMQ, Ra is used to implement a consistent replicated queue but that isn't all that Ra can be used for. This talks will be a practical session on how to implement consistent distributed system essentials, such as replicating a key-value stores, leader election processes, lock servers and other coordination services on top of the Ra library.

OBJECTIVES

Share knowledge of the Ra library and how to achieve common distributed system patterns using it.

AUDIENCE

People who write distributed systems and are interested in strong consistency and the trade-offs involved in writing and maintaining such systems.