Cassandra at Disqus

Welcome all big data geeks, Cassandra users, and NoSQL enthusiasts; thanks for joining the SF Cassandra users group!

This is the first meetup in a series of monthly meetups hosted by Disqus in San Francisco, just a couple blocks away from the Embarcadero Bart station.

At this meetup George Courtsunis, software engineer at Disqus, will be presenting:

• How Cassandra is used at Disqus for a number of critical platform components, ranging from real-time content recommendation to a fast and scalable caching tier.

• Why they made the decision to utilize Cassandra, as well as some of the insights and gotchas they've run into along the way.

• And lastly, he'll leave you with some fun ideas that they'll be exploring with Cassandra for the near future.

About George Courtsunis

George is currently a Software Engineer at Disqus, landing here after graduating from MIT and working at Intuit. He is currently working on the data infrastructure team where he uses a healthy dose of Cassandra while attempting to count all the data gathered across the Disqus network.

Be sure to come straight from the office (or sofa) as food and beverage will be served!

Agenda

6:30pm - Food/Beverage Served

7:00pm - Presentation by George Courtsunis

7:45pm - Q&A

8:00pm - Social

I hope you're able to join us!

If not, we'll be broadcasting the Presentation/Q&A here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW1ZEdlziBc