FoundationDB Meetup [In-Person and Online]

Join us for our first-ever FoundationDB Meetup in San Jose, CA!
This meetup will occur once a month in the Adobe office. We will feature an interesting roster of speakers who use or work on FoundationDB.

Agenda:

• Social Hour - 30 mins
• How Tigris Leverages FoundationDB for Global Metadata - 30 mins
• Encryption in FoundationDB - 30 mins

Talk 1 :
Title: How Tigris Leverages FoundationDB for Global Metadata Storage
Speaker: Himank Chaudhary (Co-founder/CTO, Tigris)
Speaker Bio:
Himank is the Co-Founder and CTO of Tigris Data where he is building a globally distributed object storage service. Prior to co-founding Tigris, Himank was the tech lead of Docstore, Uber’s distributed database that powered petabytes of data and facilitated millions of queries per second in a geo-distributed hybrid cloud deployment. https://www.linkedin.com/in/himankchaudhary/
Talk Summary:
Tigris is a globally distributed S3-compatible object storage service. Tigris uses FoundationDB as the underlying storage engine to store the metadata. In this talk, Himank will share the technical details around why they chose FoundationDB and how we are using it at scale to power our object storage service.

Talk 2:
Title: Encryption in FoundationDB
Speaker: Ata E Husain Bohra (Snowflake)
Speaker Bio:
Ata is a core member of Snowflake's FoundationDB team. Snowflake has been working with FoundationDB for more than a decade. Ata is an industry veteran with over 10 years of experience designing/implementing large-scale distributed systems. Prior to Snowflake, he played an instrumental role in building and productionizing Uber’s Distributed Ledger platform. He is a startup enthusiast and has worked at multiple successful startups as a core member of the distributed filesystem team. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ataehusain/
Talk Summary:
Snowflake enhanced FoundationDB by designing/implementing an enterprise-grade native encryption data-at-rest solution. The talk deep-dives into encryption at-rest architecture, supported configuration modes, and ability to integrate with existing enterprise’s encryption infrastructure.

Virtual meeting link - RSVP to view the link

Logistics for getting to the meeting space

• Navigate to Adobe's Founders Tower building - 333 W San Fernando St, San Jose, CA 95113
• You can park your vehicle in the building free of charge. Parking levels - 1 or B1 or B2 are accessible for visitors.
• Let security know that you are here for the FoundationDB Meetup and that the meeting host is Aravind Sriram
• Wait in the lobby area. One of the organizers will meet you and escort you to the meeting space.