Berkeley DB at Yammer; Application Specific NoSQL Data Stores for Everyone
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Hi All,
After taking a month off, we've got a great talk lined up for the next meetup. Details are below. (You're going to like them.) At this point we have space for another short preso, so if you're interested don't hesitate to get in touch. The date for this one will be April 24th and will be in the usual location. As usual, Basho will provide the pizza and beer.
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Berkeley DB at Yammer; Application Specific NoSQL Data Stores for Everyone
Ryan Kennedy (https://twitter.com/#!/rckenned), Director of Core Services at Yammer.
In early 2011 Yammer set out to replace an 11 billion row PostgreSQL message delivery database with something a bit more scale-ready. They reached for several databases with which they were familiar, but none proved to be a fit for various reasons. Following in the footsteps of so few before them, they took the wheel of the SS Berkeley DB Java Edition and piloted it into the uncharted waters of horizontal scalability.
In this talk, Ryan will cover Yammer's journey through log cleaner infested waters, being hijacked on the high seas by the BDB B-tree cache, and their eventual flotilla of a 45 node, 256 partition BDB cluster.
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Also, if you're looking for a job building badass distributed systems, you'll want to be here. Last month we had developers from Boundary, Simple.com, Twitter, Yammer, Square, and others who were hiring.
Hope to see you on April 24th. Seats are limited. Register early and please release your seat if you won't be able make it.
Mark
Berkeley DB at Yammer; Application Specific NoSQL Data Stores for Everyone