Seattle Scalability Meetup: Facebook Analytics at Scale + Joyent Operations

This meetup focuses on Scalability and technologies to enable handling large amounts of data: Hadoop, HBase, distributed NoSQL databases, and more!

There's not only a focus on technology, but also everything surrounding it including operations, management, business use cases, and more.

We've had great success in the past, and are growing quickly! Previous guests were from Twitter, LinkedIn, Amazon, Cloudant, Microsoft, 10gen/MongoDB, and more.

This month's guests:

Facebook Analytics at Scale, Lior Abraham, Interana

There are many systems designed to address large volumes of data, but analytics, or ad-hoc queries, are often left in the dust. Query times on the order of hours or days. Data consumers are required to write code or complex SQL to answer even the most basic questions. At Facebook we built real-time systems that reduced to complex queries answered by hundreds of servers across terabytes of data in seconds or less. This talk covers how we applied the same principles to data, with one use case in-mind: analytics. How do we achieve scale at trillions of rows, maintain interactive speeds, keep broad flexibility and expressibility, and above all, make data accessible. Further, if we can achieve this, what is the impact on data science and data consumers.

The Lies We Tell Our Code, Casey Bisson, Joyent

We tell our code lies from development to deploy. The most common of these lies start with the simple act of launching a virtual machine. These lies are critical to our applications. Some of them protect applications from themselves and each other, some even improve performance. Some, however, decrease performance, and others create barriers to simply getting things done.

We lie about the systems, networks, storage, RAM, CPU and other resources our applications use, but how we tell those lies is critical to how the applications that depend on them perform. Joyent's Casey Bisson will explore the lies we tell our code and demonstrate examples of how they sometimes help and hurt us.

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Our format is flexible: We usually have 2 speakers who talk for ~30 minutes each and then do Q+A plus discussion (about 45 minutes each talk) finish by 8:45.

There'll be beer afterwards, of course!

Meetup Location:

Whitepages (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1301+5th+Avenue+%231700%2C+Seattle%2C+WA), 1301 5th Avenue #1600, Seattle, WA

Doors lock on 5th Ave, Enter on 4th Avenue by Golds Gym, turn right, come up stairs past security to 16th floor

After-beer Location:

Rock Bottom Brewery

Doors open 30 minutes ahead of show-time. Please show up at least 15 minutes early out of respect for our first speaker.