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Facebook News Feed: Social Data at Scale
Serkan Piantino discusses news feeds at Facebook: the basics, infrastructure used, how feed data is stored, and Centrifuge – a storage solution.
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Not Your Father’s Transaction Processing
Michael Stonebraker compares how RDBMS, NoSQL and NewSQL support today’s big data transaction processing needs. He also introduces VoltDB, an in-memory NewSQL database.
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Real-Time Delivery Architecture at Twitter
Raffi Krikorian details Twitter’s timeline architecture, its “write path” and “read path”, making it possible to deliver 300k tweets/sec.
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The Startup Hangover: Supporting 15M Users
Phil Calçado presents SoundCloud’s approach to dealing with scalability issues when their user number grew beyond what they initially could support by creating services in various languages.
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MongoDB - Born in the Cloud
Ross Lawley introduces MongoDB, explaining why it is a good solution for cloud deployment.
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Event Processing at Massive Scale
Uri Cohen discusses several types of queues with their pros and cons used in financial and trading industries for highly parallelized data processing.
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Netflix: Movies, When You Want, Where You Want, from the Cloud!
Jeremy Edberg discusses running Netflix services on AWS: storage, streaming and scaling solutions, multi-region deployments, why cloud over private data center, and architectural snapshots.
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Working with MIG
David Dawson and Marcus Kern share lessons learned creating a high-performance mass audience participation system using NoSQL.
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Future of Data Architecture: NoSQL, Big Data, Linked Data and the Cloud
In this panel, Siddharth Anand, Dwight Merriman, Ashish Thusoo, Damien Katz, Tom Wilkie and Akmal Chaudhri (moderator) answer questions on NoSQL from the audience.
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Architecture at Scale at ESPN
Manny Pelarinos presents ESPN’s overall and core service architecture, the data ingest process, the custom CMS and template language used, and how live scores and personalization work.
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High Performance Network Applications in the Capital Markets
Todd Montgomery discusses messaging and how peer-to-peer messaging has changed capital markets, then takes a peek into its future pointing out that queuing is dead.
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What Can DevOps Learn from Formula 1?
Stephen Burton discusses how the people, processes, collaboration and tools employed in Formula 1 can be used to manage performance and reliability and ultimately achieve success by DevOps.