The Power of Lightweight Transactions

• 6:30 - Food and Social Time
• 7:00 - Lightning Talks (Open to all)
• Following - Eric Zietlow presents Lightweight Transactions in Cassandra. Solving the borgs data issues.

--The Power of Lightweight Transactions by Eric Zietlow
Lightweight transactions are extremely powerful when used correctly. They not only enable you to use a highly durable distributed system in an ACID like way but they allow you to do it with ease. In this talk we will explore the application of lightweight transactions and when they should be used.

About the Speakers
Eric Zietlow is a Cloud Developer Advocate at DataStax. He has been in the field for 5 plus years. Prior to being a Developer Advocate, he was a Solution Architect with over 800 accounts. Before DataStax he worked for a systems integration startup.

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