Performance Data Modeling at Scale

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Title: Performance Data Modeling at Scale
Speaker: Aaron Ploetz
Description -

The most important aspect about backing your application with Cassandra, is in building a good data model. In addition to designing a query-based model that distributes well, performance at scale should also be a prime consideration. After all, you want good things to happen when your application gets a sudden 10x increase in traffic. At Target, the holiday season hits our infrastructure hard, and engineering to withstand that 10x increase is our reality.

In this presentation, we will examine real-world use cases and data processing scenarios. We will cover Cassandra data modeling techniques, and other considerations for both high performance and large scale. Performance engineering of existing models will also be discussed, along with ways to get that extra bit of lower latency.

About the presenter:

Aaron Ploetz is the NoSQL Engineering Lead for Target, where his DevOps team supports Cassandra, MongoDB, Redis, and Neo4j. He has been named a DataStax MVP for Apache Cassandra three times, and has presented at multiple events, including the DataStax Summit and Data Day Texas. Aaron has also authored several tech articles and books, including "Seven NoSQL Databases in a Week" and "Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x - Third Edition", both by Packt Publishing. He earned a BS in Management/Computer Systems from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, and a MS in Software Engineering from Regis University. Aaron and his wife, Coriene, live with their three children in the Twin Cities area.