The Superstars of Apache Druid (feat. Charter & Ibotta)

Denver Druid community: join us for the first in-person Apache Druid meetup of 2022! Featuring observability and fraud detection use case talks from practitioners at Charter Communications and Ibotta, this meetup is not to be missed. And yes: there will be pizza, beer, wine and Druid swag! And here's the virtual link for those who are joining online: [https://imply-io.zoom.us/j/9046278839](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://imply-io.zoom.us/j/9046278839&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1646582453132468&usg=AOvVaw05PU9yKNyL_p2haw3a9sGW)

AGENDA:
5:30–6pm: Pizza, beer, wine & networking
6–6:40pm: How Charter built a resilient, observable, and tunable real-time pipeline with Imply Druid
6:45–7:15pm: Powering Ibotta’s Incident Response Analytics with Druid
7:15–7:45pm: Data Rivers: The New Analytics Architecture

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Talk #1: How Charter built a resilient, observable, and tunable real-time pipeline with Imply Druid

Talk abstract: (to the tune of Jay-Z’s 99-Problems)

If you're having real-time problems, I feel bad for you, son, we’ve got 99.9% problems but a blip ain’t one.

I've got the Query Patrol on the alert patrol
Streams that want to make sure my uptime has woes
Realtime critics that say mo, mo, mo
We’re from the query team, what types of challenges are those?
If you grew up with holes in your data shows
You’d celebrate the minute you was resilient, though
I’m like, forget critics you can have your data in droves
If you don’t like our merits, you can use SQL
We get 8 hours of downtime, we can’t be done
We got 99.9% problems, but a blip ain’t one – hit me

Speaker bio:
Jacob Ferlin is Director, Data Platform Ops at Charter Communications. He’s a former Navy kid who joined the Navy himself to ‘see the world.’ He ended up in ‘wild and wonderful’ Afghanistan for the most transformative moment in his life, though in hindsight, he realized that Darth Vader might have oversold the original promise. He is a constantly learning husband and an average father with aspirations for greatness. In his spare time, he enjoys developing leaders, pushing limits of both people and machines, and designing scalable data solutions; he also has a deep love of good data visualization. He's insatiably curious, a voracious reader, and a recovering perfectionist.

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Talk #2: Powering Ibotta’s Fraud Prevention Analytics with Druid

Talk abstract: In this talk, you'll learn more about the way that Ibotta uses Druid as the foundation of their real-time analytics architecture. They'll share some of the dashboards that are used to enable rapid incident response and proactive decisions in their best-in-class fraud prevention analytics program.

Speaker bio #1: Becky Layson has risen through the ranks over several years at Ibotta and currently leads a team of analysts as a Live Team manager. Her team is focused on discovering trends through data-driven reporting and preventing fraud to ensure a quality experience for Ibotta Savers.

Speaker bio #2: Jake Seefeldt is a senior decision scientist on the Fraud Analytics team at Ibotta. His team provides analytics and strategic support for fraud prevention initiatives as well as enables the fraud teams to be able to identify and respond to fraud attacks in real time.

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Talk #3: Data Rivers: The New Analytics Architecture

Talk abstract: We know all about data lakes, swamps, lake houses, so why not a Data River? In this talk, we will take a short trip through the data analytics landscape and learn what is a data river, how did the architecture evolve and when you should consider it for your modern data application.

Speaker bio: Rachel Pedreschi is the VP of Community & Developer Relations at Imply. A "Data Geek-ette”, Rachel is no stranger to the world of high-performance databases and data warehouses. She is a Vertica, Informix and Redbrick certified DBA on top of her work with Cassandra and has 20+ years of business intelligence and ETL tool experience. Rachel has an MBA from San Francisco State University and a BA in Mathematics from University of California, Santa Cruz.