Making HBase Invincible: Use Cases and Challenges

Tech giants like Facebook, Dropbox, and Flurry use HBase to efficiently store and access data in real time, but is HBase ready to support critical applications that demand WAN availability and instant disaster recovery?

In this meetup we'll cover the HBase use cases for Facebook Messenger, Dropbox metadata, and Flurry's real-time analytics, then examine the challenges enterprises face in running large-scale HBase deployments to support fraud detection, analytics, and advertising applications.

Agenda

• 6:30 - 7:00

• Registration/Dinner and Socializing

• 7:00 - 7:05

• Opening remarks, and housekeeping

• 7:05 - 7:50

• Who's Using HBase?
  Alex Newman

• 7:50 - 8:00

• Bio Break

• 8:00 - 8:45 PM

• All your wildest (HBase) dreams will come true
  Ryan Rawson

• 8:45 - 9:30
Networking & Q&A

Alex Newman

Alex Newman is committer of open source code to Hadoop whose code has been used in production for over 10 years. He has worked in big data, network protocol design, software security, and application development. Before joining WANdisco, Alex founded OhmData and worked on HBase at Cloudera.

Ryan Rawson

Ryan Rawson is a principal committer of HBase open source code and a member of the HBase Project Management Committee. Before joining WANdisco, Ryan co-founded OhmData, worked on Google’s ‘Big Table’ forerunner to HBase, and developed synchronous cross-data center distributed business logic at Amazon. He specializes in large systems (hundreds of nodes or servers), extensive code bases, and multiple language environments.