Track Overview
Distributed Stateful Systems
Tackling the difficult problem of distributed state management
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Taming Distributed Stateful Pets With Kubernetes
So you've mastered Kubernetes for scheduling and scaling your stateless applications. Your pager has been quieter, life is good. But what about the carefully configured database clusters running on expensive dedicated infrastructure? (And the expensive sysadmin you're paying to maintain it!). In...
Matthew Bates
Co-founder at UK Kubernetes Company Jetstack
James Munnelly
Solutions Engineer @Jetstack
Cloud-Native and Scalable Kafka Architecture
Kafka as a distributed stateful service faces serious stability and scalability challenges in cloud environment which favors stateless services. As cluster size grows with traffic, it faces issues of data balancing, high consumer data fan out and time consuming process to scale up or update....
Allen Wang
Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Platform @Netflix
Scaling Uber's Elasticsearch Clusters
Uber's Marketplace is the algorithmic brain behind Uber's ride-sharing services, and the brain needs immense amount of real-time data to make timely and sound decisions. Uber's Marketplace Intelligence team has been using Elasticsearch as a real-time OLAP database to serve thousands of internal...
Danny Yuan
Real-time Streaming Lead @Uber
The Future of Distributed Databases Is Relational
Years ago when working at Amazon on shopping cart infrastructure and the precursor to DynamoDB, my co-founder and I realized that while distributed key value stores were useful for a few use-cases, we missed many of the benefits of relational databases: transactions, joins, and the power of the...
Sumedh Pathak
VP Engineering & Co-Founder @CitusData
Real-Time Decisions Using ML on the Google Cloud Platform
Ocado Technology is providing a full solution to put the world’s retailers online using the cloud, robotics, AI and IoT. Processing tens of thousands of orders every day, we generate millions of events every minute, leading to huge amount of data to be managed. We will present how this Big Data...
Carlos Garcia
Ocado Smart Platform Fraud Team Lead
Przemyslaw Pastuszka
ML Engineer @Ocado
Speakers from this track
Matthew Bates
Co-founder at UK Kubernetes Company Jetstack
Matt’s background is in solutions for the acquisition, management and exploitation of large-scale data. Since its launch, he has contributed widely to the Kubernetes project, both to the technology and to the ecosystem. He was an early employee at NoSQL startup MongoDB, and previously at...
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James Munnelly
Solutions Engineer @Jetstack
I'm a Solutions Engineer at Jetstack, which involves helping customers bend and break Kubernetes to their will. I've created a number of extensions to Kubernetes core, including cert-manager (a kube-lego successor), Navigator (DBaaS for Kubernetes), and built my own simple cloud provider for bare...
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Allen Wang
Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Platform @Netflix
Allen Wang is currently with Netflix Real Time Data Infrastructure team where he made significant contribution to Kafka and data infrastructure in AWS. He is a contributor to both Apache Kafka and NetflixOSS and the author of Kafka's rack aware partition assignment. He spoke in 2016 and 2017...
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Danny Yuan
Real-time Streaming Lead @Uber
Danny Yuan is a software engineer in Uber. He’s currently working on streaming systems for Uber’s marketplace platform. Prior to joining Uber, he worked on building Netflix’s cloud platform. His work includes predictive autoscaling, distributed tracing service, real-time data pipeline that...
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Sumedh Pathak
VP Engineering & Co-Founder @CitusData
Sumedh is a co-founder and the VP of Engineering at Citus Data, where he leads the effort to make sure the Citus scale-out database is useful for application developers, so they can focus on their application and not their infrastructure. Before Citus, Sumedh worked as a software engineer at...
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Carlos Garcia
Ocado Smart Platform Fraud Team Lead
Carlos has eight years of experience developing software, most of it in high-traffic applications in the travel industry. Carlos joined Ocado Technology one year ago, as team leader of the Fraud Detection team. He has participated in the definition and implementation of a production-ready...
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Przemyslaw Pastuszka
ML Engineer @Ocado
Przemek is a software engineer with six years of experience in the Big Data space. He started his career working for a US-based startup called Hadapt (now acquired by Teradata), building a distributed in-house file system which was designed as a highly-performant replacement for HDFS. After...
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Track Host
Sid Anand
Hacker at Large, Co-chair @QCon & Data Council, PMC & Committer @ApacheAirflow
Sid Anand recently served as PayPal's Chief Data Engineer, focusing on ways to realize the value of data. Prior to joining PayPal, he held several positions including Agari's Data Architect, a Technical Lead in Search & Data Analytics @ LinkedIn, Netflix’s Cloud Data Architect,...
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