Cost-Efficient Data Engineering: Scaling Without Breaking the Bank
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Come along to the last meetup event of the year!
In this edition, we'll be discussing cost efficiency and how you can scale without things getting out of hand. This meetup will feature two talks and a panel discussion, so make sure to join us.
We’ll be sharing more details soon, but spots are limited — be sure to grab your ticket before they run out!
When?
17:30 - 18:30 Networking with food and drinks from Altinity
18:30 - 20:00 Talk + Panel discussion
20:00 - 20:30 More networking
Where?
London Art Bar (300 High Holborn)
Speakers and Talks:
Talk: Fast, Big, and Cheap: Pro Tricks for Cost Control in Analytic Apps (Robert Hodges, CEO @ Altinity)
Analytic databases are heavy users of storage and compute that quickly grow into budget-busting behemoths. Altinity has helped thousands of companies build high performance analytics on open source ClickHouse. This talk covers our learnings about keeping systems cheap without sacrificing speed--from optimizing I/O to using compute at low-cost providers like Hetzner to keeping a single copy of data in Iceberg data lakes.
Talk: Why Self-Managing an Open-Source Data Stack Is Still Too Hard — The Missing Part (Jian Tang, Founder at Tangram Data)
Self-managing a data stack built on open-source tools promises flexibility and lower costs, but in practice, teams often struggle with complexity, integration gaps, and operational overhead. What many don’t realize is that a crucial piece is missing: a unified control plane that ties infrastructure, tools, governance, and observability together.
Panel: Cutting Costs, Not Capability — Scaling Data Without the Spend
Panelists:
- Prachi Gupta, Senior Data & AI Solution Architect @ AWS
- Robert Hodges, CEO @ Altinity
- Eric Papaluca, Senior Principal Consultant @ Mesh-AI
Join our panel of three speakers as they discuss how architectural decisions, emerging technologies, and early design choices influence long-term data costs. As data demands continue to grow, how can we rethink cost-efficient engineering to keep pace?
Places are limited, make sure you register!
Note: Please ensure your RSVP status is kept up to date, as this helps us offer spots to those on the waitlist. Please be aware that if you have three or more no-shows, you may be ineligible to attend future events.