Cassandra NYC Event Schedule

The following is the schedule for Cassandra NYC at the Lighthouse International Conference Center on Tuesday, December 6th. We have 2 rooms set aside for presentations.

Nathan Marz, Twitter

Nathan Marz (@nathanmarz) is currently employed at Twitter as the lead engineer for the Storm Project. In Nathan’s own words: Storm is a distributed, reliable, and fault-tolerant stream processing system. Its use cases are so broad that we consider it to be a fundamental new primitive for data processing. That’s why we call it the Hadoop of realtime: it does for realtime processing what Hadoop does for batch processing. Storm is of particular value for stream processing, continuous computation, and distributed RPC. Read more about Nathan’s work at his blog: Thoughts from a Red Planet.

Jonathan Ellis, DataStax CTO and Apache Project Chair of Cassandra, will be talking about what’s new in Cassandra 1.0. He will also give a glimpse into what the future holds. Jonathan is CTO and co-founder at DataStax (formerly Riptano). Prior to DataStax, Jonathan worked extensively with Apache Cassandra while employed at Racksace. Prior to Rackspace, Jonathan built a multi-petabyte, scalable storage system based on Reed-Solomon encoding for backup provider Mozy.

Eric Evans, Acunu

One of the most linked to talks from Cassandra SF 2011 was Eric Evans talk on CQL — the Cassandra Query Language. There is no better expert on CQL, and Eric has graciously agreed to join us for Cassandra NYC to give us an update. Eric will cover the background, motivation, and syntax of CQL. Eric is a committer on the Apache Cassandra project, and all-around Free Software hacker. Eric resides in San Antonio, Texas.

Matt Dennis, DataStax – Data Modeling Workshop

Matt has been with DataStax since the beginning and currently focuses on high level architecture, design, data models, deployment and algorithms for some of the largest, highest volume and most fault tolerant distributed systems in the world. Prior to DataStax, Matt held various technical leadership and principal development roles at Crossroads Systems and Troux Technologies and even spent time as a System Administrator in a former life. Matt studied Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in the College of Natural Sciences and the College of Engineering respectively.

Joe Stein, Medialets – How to Use Cassandra As The Central Nervous System Of Distributed Systems

Joe Stein is currently the Chief Architect and head of server side development & production operations for Medialets. Joe has been a distributed systems developer and architect for over 10 years. He has built a variety of product solutions, security solutions, information exchanges and has been responsible for running them as services across different verticals.

Nate McCall, DataStax – Introduction to Cassandra

Nate McCall currently works as evangelist and software developer for DataStax. He is also the lead developer and release manager of the Hector client for Apache Cassandra. Nate has over 11 years of server side systems and software development experience in such industries as news and entertainment, on-line gaming and advertising. In his talk, Nate will provide a brief introduction and overview of key Apache Cassandra concepts such as idempotence, tunable consistency, and shared-nothing clusters all through the process of creating a simple application.

Nathan Milford, Outbrain

Nathan Milford (@NathanMilford) is an Operations Engineer / Systems Administrator / Site Reliability Engineer at Outbrain. Nathan is Interested in large data projects, scalable architectures, and open source. In his spare time, Nathan is a photographer and practitioner of Jiu Jitsu and Muay Thai. You can follow his blog at : http://blog.milford.io/

Ilya Maykov, Ooyala – Scaling Video Analytics with Cassandra

Ilya Maykov is an engineer on the analytics team at Ooyala, the video technology company powering the online video experience for some of today’s most innovative media companies such as ESPN, Bloomberg, and Miramax. His talk will describe the challenges of computing multi-dimensional video analytics reports over Ooyala’s 100M+ monthly unique users in near-real-time, and the role Cassandra plays in meeting these challenges.

Chris Burroughs, Cassandra at Clearspring

Chris Burroughs is a developer at Clearspring Technologies where he works on the Data and Analytics team. There he wrestles with the black art of JVM tuning, searches for meaning in TCP state diagrams, and continues the never ending journey to make sense of distributed systems. Chris is also the leader of the Cassandra DC users group.

Edward Capriolo, Media6Degrees – Cassandra in Online Advertising: Real-Time Bidding

Edward Capriolo is a Hadoop System Administrator at m6d.com. Always interested clustered, fault tolerant, and grid computing systems he became dazzled by Apache Cassandra. He authored Cassandra High Performance Cookbook for both fun and homage. In addition to the book, Edward also has a Cassandra High Performance Blog.

Robin Schumacher, Cassandra: The Foundation of Today’s Enterprise Data Stack

Robin Schumacher is Vice President of Products for DataStax. Robin has over 20 years experience working with databases and Big Data, was the database software reviewer for several IT magazines, and has authored three database performance books. Prior to joining DataStax, Robin started and led the product management teams at MySQL, EnterpriseDB, and Embarcadero Technologies.

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