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Tasty 'Topics' for Distributed Systems
Are you struggling to pick through large amounts of real time data? Does your IoT project create vast amounts of data and you don’t know how get actionable insights quickly enough? Did you consider the publish/subscribe pattern? With some imagination, pub/sub can often provide surprisingly...
SQL Server On Linux: Will It Perform Or Not?
Will SQL Server perform on Linux better than on Windows? Have you been wondering whether the multi-layer architecture the team revealed recently will hurt SQL Server’s performance? Are you still not convinced about the entire endeavor. Come, listen to the talk, learn about SQL Server’s...
Causal Consistency For Large Neo4j Clusters
In this talk we'll explore the new Causal clustering architecture for Neo4j. We'll see how Neo4j uses the Raft protocol for a robust underlay for intensive write operations, and how the asynchronous new scale-out mechanism provides enormous capacity for very demanding graph workloads. We'll...
Drowning in Data, Thirsting for Insight
Welcome to the digital era where customer experience management grows more dependent on more data from more sources every day, making issues harder to detect, harder to investigate and diagnose, and harder to resolve quickly. We know that data proliferation will only accelerate, so our industry...
Multiple NoSQL Use Cases with Redis Modules
Developing next generation digital applications is introducing more and more different use cases of which NoSQL products need to address. Redis Labs answer to this, is to continue growing and working with the community with the introduction of Redis Modules. Redis Modules are add-ons to Redis...
I have a NoSQL toaster
NoSQL is a catch-all term that covers a lot of different types of data storage. Is it really helpful to group them together by one thing they don't have? Think about it like this: my toaster is as much NoSQL as any database! So, how can we make more sense of this new breed of database management...
Interviews
SQL Server On Linux: Will It Perform Or Not?
What have you been working on recently?
Two years ago there was a business decision to put SQL Server on Linux; so, as the engineering team, we have to figure out the “How” part. The task is technically challenging: tens of millions of lines of code that continues growing on a monthly basis, with over 500 developers working on it. The Drawbridge project, which I became...
Read Full InterviewNext Steps in Stateful Streaming with Apache Flink
How you you describe the persona and level of the target audience?
The typical persona in the audience would be a developer or architect that wants to learn about the power of stream processing (and Apache Flink specifically) and how stream processing and Flink affect the way we process fast data and build data-driven applications today.
Read Full InterviewDatabases and Stream Processing: A Future of Consolidation
Tell us a little bit about yourself and what you are doing today.
I work at Confluent, which is one of the companies that sits behind Apache Kafka. Originally I worked on Kafka Core where I worked on a number of features, including the latest version of the replication protocol. I did some work on throttling and a few other things too. These days I run what we call the Office of the CTO, which is a...
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