Aerospike & Thoughtworks Meetup at Criteo Office/Barcelona

This evening is all about networking and learning about topics such as Big Data, NoSQL, Infrastructure, Kubernetes, Cloud Native, DevOps. Feel free to join and be part of building and forming the Barcelona community around these topics!

Technical Execs from Thoughtworks (Chris Ford, CTO Spain) and Aerospike (Oscar M Herrera, Field CTO) will discuss how to address today's toughest data challenges. Aerospike will explain what a real-time, multi-model, NoSQL data platform is all about - and Thoughtworks will explain why communities are now all about Data-Mesh.

Tasty food and drinks will be provided.

Talk 1: Data Mesh 101 by Chris Ford (Thoughtworks)

Data Mesh is a new socio-technical approach to data architecture, first described by Zhamak Dehghani and popularised through a guest blog post on Martin Fowler's site. Since then, community interest has grown, due to Data Mesh's ability to explain and address the frustrations that many organisations are experiencing as they try to get value from their data. The 2022 publication of Zhamak's book on Data Mesh further provoked conversation, as have the growing number of experience reports from companies that have put Data Mesh into practice. So what's all the fuss about?

On the one hand, Data Mesh is a new approach in the field of Big Data. On the other hand, Data Mesh is an application of the lessons we have learned from domain-driven design and microservices to a data context. This talk will explain how Data Mesh relates to current thinking in software architecture and the historical development of data architecture philosophies. They will outline what benefits Data Mesh brings, what trade-offs it comes with and when organisations should and should not consider adopting it.

Talk 2: A technical introduction to Real-Time Data Platforms by Oscar M Herrera (Aerospike)

Learn about Aerospike's purpose built real-time data management platform, which focuses on optimizing utilization of the hardware, to enable customers to build a new category of real-time application that meets expectations of todays customer experience, with a lower TCO than traditional systems.