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Power of the Log:LSM & Append Only Data Structures
Summary
Ben Stopford talks about the beauty of sequential access and append only data structures, in the context of a little known paper entitled “Log Structured Merge Trees”. LSM describes a counter intuitive approach to storing and accessing data in a sequential fashion.
Bio
Ben Stopford is an engineer working on the Core Apache Kafka at Confluent Inc (the company behind Apache Kafka). He's worked with distributed data infrastructure for over a decade, switching between engineering products and helping companies use them. Before Confluent he designed the central data infrastructure for a large investment bank.
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Ben this is an excellent talk! Very informative and helpful... One point of critical feedback would be to try and not walk back and forth so much. The camera person following you made me seasick. :)
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Ha! Thanks for the kind words and yes, that's excellent feedback, I'm working on it :) Thanks.
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Wow,you explained beautifully....:)
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Thank you Warangal - appreciated.
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