Steve Huffman

Steve Huffman
Co-founder, Hipmunk

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Steve Huffman co-founded the social news site reddit.com in 2005 with his college roommate. reddit.com has grown into the largest social news site and one of the largest communities on the Internet. In 2010, he co-founded Hipmunk, a travel meta-search site trying to take the agony out of searching for plane tickets online. As lead engineer at both these companies, he’s had many technologies adventures and hopes to share his experiences.

Sessions

10:05am Tuesday, 03/29/2011
The Architecture of a Robust Realtime Site
Development 2006
Steve Huffman (Hipmunk)
Average rating: ****.
(4.08, 12 ratings)
This is a session for developers who are interested in learning about the Tornado framework for Python and event-driven programming in general. We'll talk about the benefits of Tornado and how we use it and other libraries at Hipmunk to write robust software and to ease scaling. Read more.
Sponsors
  • Bundle
  • Microsoft Corporation
  • Rackspace Hosting
  • .CO
  • Serve (amex)
  • Tagged
  • Berlin Partner
  • IBT
  • OpenSRS
  • PR Newswire
  • RIM
  • SoftLayer
  • StrataScale Inc.
  • TokBox

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