Big Data Special with Cassandra London

For our 9th meetup we're teaming up with Cassandra London for a unique chance to hear Adrian Cockcroft from Netflix talk about how they use Cassandra. Adrian will be over in London as one of the keynotes for QCon London and has kindly agreed to give a talk at the meetup. Spaces are limited so sign up fast!

18:30: Welcome and start networking around beer and pizza

19:00: Talks

Mark Gillett on the challenges at Skype

Adrian Cockcroft on How Netflix uses Cassandra

20:00: Continue networking

21:00: Wrap up and head to nearby pub

For all those interested, please sign up through the Cassandra London meetup group here: https://www.meetup.com... (https://www.meetup.com/Cassandra-London/events/50558912/)

About the speakers

Cloud architect for Netflix, previously managed personalization algorithm platform development. Founding member of eBay Research Labs, Sun Distinguished Engineer. Author of Sun Performance and Tuning books.

About Netflix

Netflix are one of the most high profile users of Cassandra. Over the past year they have been investing heavily in Cassandra as their primary persistent storage solution (http://techblog.netflix.com/2012/01/announcing-astyanax.html) having previously migrated from Oracle (http://www.slideshare.net/adrianco/migrating-netflix-from-oracle-to-global-cassandra).

About the sponsors

Big thanks to Acunu (http://www.acunu.com) and Musicmetric (http://www.musicmetric.com) for organising the meetup, to Canonical (http://www.canonical.com) for sponsoring food and drinks, and to Forward (http://forwardtechnology.co.uk) for hosting us and handling the beers.

If you are interested in becoming a sponsor of this meetup and get exposed to our 495+ members, please contact konrad@acunu.com.