Presentation: "NoSQL@Netflix"

Time: Friday 10:35 - 11:35

Location: Fleming Room, Third Floor

Abstract:
Over the past 2 years, Netflix has moved the vast majority of its infrastructure, applications, and data to Amazon's Web Services. At the end of 2010, we were serving 90% of our site and streaming traffic out of the cloud. This talk details Netflix's transition away from relational databases and towards high-availability (NoSQL) storage systems. In our first phase, we moved from Oracle to SimpleDB (and S3). However, based on a reassessment of our needs, we have started investing in Cassandra. This talk will details the reasons for our transitions and the strengths/weaknesses of the different technologies.
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Siddharth Anand, Netflix

 Siddharth  Anand

Siddharth “Sid” Anand is a technologist/software architect with deep experience scaling high-traffic web sites – he is passionate about algorithms and system design.

Sid is currently a member of Netflix’s Cloud Systems team, where he creates Cloud-based systems to improve Netflix’s scalability, performance, and availability. Prior to joining Netflix, Sid served as the VP of Engineering at Etsy, worked as a search engineer and researcher at eBay, and solved performance issues at Siebel Systems. He earned his B.S. and M.Eng degrees from Cornell University – his graduate work focused on distributed (cloud) computing.

Specialties:
System Scalability and Performance, Cloud Computing, Algorithms

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