Cassandra at BlackRock

This month, BlackRock has very kindly offered to host us, sponsor drinks and pizzas AND speak at our meetup! Thank you so much to BlackRock for this!

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU RSVP WITH NAME AND LAST NAME AS IT WILL BE A MANDATORY REQUIREMENT TO GET INTO THE BUILDING!

Schedule

18:15 - Doors Open (Pizza will be served at the break only)
18:45 – Cassandra at BlackRock - Matt Gardner
19:30 – Break (With Drinks and Snacks)
19:45 - Securing Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise - Johnny Miller
20:30 – Networking

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Speaker:
Matt Gardner

Matt Gardner is a senior software engineer on BlackRock's software engineering group. His team is responsible for developing and managing the core engineering team for BlackRock's Aladdin platform. He has been an enthusiastic Cassandra user since 2011. Previously, he spent time leading the team responsible for core systems used for investment trade processing.

Talk:

At BlackRock, we use Cassandra in a variety of ways to help power our Aladdin investment management platform. In this talk we will give an overview of our use of Cassandra, with an emphasis on how we manage multi-tenancy in our Cassandra infrastructure. Multi-tenancy can mean different things to different people, but it often comes with added requirements related to security, isolation, and administration. We'll talk about how we operate (and make changes to) Cassandra to accommodate these needs in our platform.

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Speaker:
Johnny Miller
Solutions Architect, DataStax, EMEA based.

Johnny Miller, is an experienced developer, architect and team lead with a history of working at Sky, AOL Broadband and Alcatel-Lucent. Johnny has architected and delivered a number of enterprise platforms using Cassandra as a key component for achieving high availability and efficient scaling. Johnny's belief in the performance and scalability of Cassandra lead him to join DataStax and drive solutions using Cassandra. @cyanmiller

Title:
Securing Cassandra & DataStax Enterprise

Synopsis:
This talk will cover approaches to security with Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise. The various features and options available will be explored and some best practices discussed.

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In addition to the talks there will be, as usual, plenty of opportunity to meet other Cassandra users and enjoy robust discussions around NoSQL.

Special thanks to BlackRock (http://www.blackrock.com/) who are hosting us for this event!

Big thanks to long term supporter DataStax (http://www.datastax.com/). DataStax are one of the largest supporters of the Cassandra project and offer comprehensive support as well as their own distribution of Cassandra, Hadoop and Solr (DataStax Enterprise).

NOTE: We are unable to cater for any attendees under the age of 18. Please do not sign up for this event if you are under 18.