Artur Bergman, VP of Engineering and Operations at Wikia, gives his views on what it means to be a major brand on the Internet and what this means to the end users. There is real value in reliability and operations that is not always clear to the service providers. In terms of up time, less then 100% can actually be something good.
Users expect fast delivery of content. A bottleneck between the content and the end users can mean a major drop in capital, both in terms of actual users and revenue. Having this in mind adds another dimension to the problems of successfully maintaining a major brand.
Artur Bergman, hacker and technologist at-large, is the VP of Engineering and Operations at Wikia. He provides the technical backbone necessary for Wikia’s mission to compile and index the world’s knowledge. He is also an enthusiastic apologist for federated identity and a board member of the OpenID Foundation. In past lives, he’s built high volume financial trading systems, re-implemented Perl 5’s threading system, wrote djabberd, managed LiveJournal’s engineering team, and served as operations architect at Six Apart. His current interests extend to encompass semantic search, large scale infrastructure, open source development, federated instant messaging, neurotransmitters, and the future of cyborgs.
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