Personal schedule for Rusty Klophaus

Over the past few years, Netflix has migrated to the cloud. This talk details Netflix's transition away from relational databases and towards high-availability (NoSQL) storage systems. We rely on a combination of proprietary (e.g. SimpleDB and S3) and open-source (e.g. Cassandra and HBase) NoSQL technologies. Read more.

Between the NoSQL movement and new cloud offerings, it seems there are new storage options popping up every day. How do you select which one is the best for your project? The truth is that it's unlikely one option is best for all your needs. This session walks you through the various options considered by one startup and how it selected five separate storage engines - and has no regret doing so! Read more.

OpenTSDB is an open-source, distributed time series database designed to monitor large clusters of commodity machines at an unprecedented level of granularity. OpenTSDB enables operations teams to keep track in real-time of all the metrics exposed by operating systems, applications and network equipment, and makes the data easily accessible. Read more.

YARN is the next generation of Hadoop Map-Reduce designed to scale out much further while allowing for running applications other than pure Map-Reduce in a highly fault-tolerant manner. Read more.

This talk introduces an open-source SQL-based system for continuous or ad-hoc analysis of streaming data built on top of Flume-based data collection for Hadoop. Attendees will understand how to use a new tool to extend their Hadoop data collection pipeline with real-time streaming analytics. Read more.

The Basho engineering team has been working to make Riak more queryable with the addition of built-in indexing plus a SQL-style query language. In this talk, Rusty describes the usage, benefits, limitations, and evolution of this this functionality, called Secondary Indices. He also covers the challenges and pitfalls of adding indexing to a distributed datastore. Read more.

The popularity of NoSQL opens up an endless array of possible uses but also causes its own set of problems. Riak, a NoSQL offering created by Basho solves this by claiming to have no single point of failure. Proving this goes a long way to dispelling the concerns within an enterprise to begin adopting a non-relational solution. Read more.

Quench your thirst with vendor-hosted libations and snacks while you check out all the cool stuff in the expo hall. Read more.

Gamification is a critical trend, affecting industries from finance to fashion and beyond. But how does gamification affect open source, software development and community? How can we leverage the techniques of engagement to build better software and connect with end users. And, how do we make our lives more fun in the process? Read more.

Designing interfaces so that other code can interact with ours (whether our code is a library, framework, application, website...) is a very common and clearly crucial activity, but fraught with dangers — stuff we all keep doing wrong time after time. This talks shows some common cases of API design errors encountered in the wild, with tips on how to avoid them when you design your next API. Read more.