NoSQL @ Netflix : Part 1

Come listen to Siddharth Anand, software architect at Netflix, talk about the white paper he published (http://practicalcloudcomputing.com/post/1267489138/netflixcloudstorage) and in which he describes:

What Netflix expects from an RDBMS What Netflix can live without and hence move to NoSQL What Netflix cannot move to NoSQL Best practices when using SimpleDB and our budding work in Cassandra Some thoughts on Bi-directional Data Replication -- a pipeline Sid built at Netflix