Cassandra at BlackRock

About the Event:

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.

About the Speaker:

Randy Fradin is a software engineer on BlackRock's core systems team. His team is responsible for developing core software infrastructure for BlackRock's Aladdin platform, including scalable storage, compute, and messaging services. He has been an enthusiastic Cassandra user since 2011. Previously he spent time developing the market data, risk reporting, and core trading functions in Aladdin.