Join us for our first meetup in Stockholm - hosted by Spotify

Hello Polyglot Persistence Members,

Thanks for again for joining this group over the past few months; we’re now ready for our first meetup, please reserve the date!

We’ll be meeting in the city center as we’re lucky enough to be hosted by Spotify.

We do have two speakers lined up for this first meetup (see agenda below), but if you have topic suggestions, would like to present yourselves or know of someone who’d like to present, please do let me know as we’ll need speakers for future meetups as well.

Date & Time:

Tuesday August 23 @18.00

Agenda:

18:00 - 18:30 arrival at the Spotify office

18:00 - 19:00 Drinks and pizza, meet & greet

19:00 - 19:05 Welcome by Vinay Joosery, Severalnines

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19:05 - 19:35 Jim Dowling - Polyglot Metadata for Hadoop

19:40 - 20:10 Radovan Zvoncek - Storage at Spotify

More drinks & nibbles

Location:

Spotify office

Birger Jarlsgatan 61

113 56 Stockholm

Map (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Birger+Jarlsgatan+61,+113+56+Stockholm,+Sweden/@59.3422198,18.0614666,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x465f9d69ac656903:0x1719d93b20785670!8m2!3d59.3422198!4d18.0636553?hl=en)

Speakers & topics:

Radovan Zvoncek, Spotify: Storage at Spotify

Spotify's attitude to storage technologies is a conservative one. There is only a handful of technologies that are approved for production use cases. At the same time, Spotify fosters an environment of experimentation and innovation. This leads to quite an intriguing conflict. In this talk, we'll explore a bit how Spotify deals with this conflict by going through the different storage solutions employed at Spotify's stack.

Jim Dowling, Scientist & Lecturer: Polyglot metadata for Hadoop

Hopsworks is the user interface to Hops Hadoop (a next-generation Hadoop distribution, http://www.hops.io ) and its main design goal is to make Hadoop usable for ordinary humans. One of Hopsworks main design challenges is how to enable users to search a Hadoop cluster, just like they would search using Google. That is, how do we enable intuitive information retrieval in a system that can scale to potentially hundreds of millions of files. In this talk, we’ll have a look at a polyglot set of storage and retrieval technologies for metadata in Hadoop, based around a single ground-source of truth for metadata in a distributed database and techniques for extending and replicating metadata to other systems.

Thanks and I’ll be in touch again in the coming weeks with reminders and further details.

Have a great week,

Jean-Jerome