Making the Transition to Cassandra at We Heart It

For this meetup we are excited to be joined by Dan McAulay, Software Engineer at We Heart It. We are also very excited that this will be a joint meetup with the Blackbird IO SF meetup group!

What You'll Learn At This Meetup

We Heart It recently moved their following feed from Redis and user notifications from MySQL to Cassandra. In this talk Dan will discuss transitioning from a relational DB to Cassandra and some of the pitfalls We heart It experienced. Including the following topics:

• When to move from a relational DB to Cassandra

• Architecting a solution that allows a seamless transition between both implementations

• Moving your Data Model to Cassandra* Using Cassandra with Node.js and Ruby on Rails

• Performance tuning

About Dan McAulay

Dan McAulay is a Software Engineer at We Heart It, where he helps architect a scalable backend that allows users to discover, save and categorize images they heart. Before We Heart It, Dan worked as a systems engineer in the computer vision space, where he maximized throughput for real-time video and image processing. Dan lives in Oakland, and when he's not at work or experimenting with a new side project, you can likely find him cruising the California Delta on his ski boat.

Hope to see you there!