Building a Streaming Data Platform at HomeAway

Data is the lifeblood of any business. As we speed up insight extraction it's like having an EKG to monitor the heartbeat of the business. Realtime data processing gives us opportunities to extract value that were never possible with the traditional data warehouse. HomeAway uses Apache Kafka to process billions of events from hundreds of applications and data sources. From realtime experimentation to machine learning, come learn how HomeAway has harnessed the distributed log to empower science.

In this session we will re-live the Kafka journey @ HA from the first topic all the way to real time machine learning models. We’ll cover the use cases, challenges, system configurations, scaling strategies, custom tooling, monitoring and much more. While this talk will have to stay relatively high level due to time constraints, we’ll take several technical dives into some of the core pieces that make this operationally possible.

As usual we'll bring dinner and drinks, just bring your appetite for conversation!