Let's Get Physical: Optimizing Big Data

Presentation Overview:
Fifty years of relational databases and online transaction processing have ingrained in us patterns of thought that do not translate neatly to the world of big data. Rather than focus on the traversal of individual entities, we must instead think in terms of large-scale set operations that exploit the parallelism of the underlying service.
In this talk, Keith Gregory will look at performance optimization in both Redshift and Athena. He will discuss the architectures of each, and the techniques used to extract maximum query performance from those architectures.

Presenter Bio(s):
Keith has been programming computers since 1977, and getting paid for it since 1984. He first started working with relational database systems in 1989, and with big data in 1992. A large part of that time has been spent in database performance optimization.

Agenda:
5:45PM - 6:00PM: Arrival and check-in
6:00PM - 6:15PM: Welcome and introductions
6:15PM - 7:15PM: Presentation
7:15PM - 7:45PM: Open Discussion and Q&A
7:45PM - 8:00PM: Conclusion