Going from .Net SQL to Hadoop+MongoDB on Linux and Java

Robert Vandehey, Senior Director at Rovi Corporation, will share Rovi's experience in migrating .Net/memcache/SQL to Java/Linux/Hadoop/Mongo.

Agenda

1. Greetings, Intros, Announcements
2. Current architecture and problems

a. ETL + cache loading process takes far too long

b. Transformations too complex. Costly to research problems.

c. Scaling web services to handle growth

3) Solution

a. Convert from Windows/.NET to Linux/Java

b. Implement Hadoop to replace ETL/cache loading

c. Replace memcached/memcachedb with MongoDB

4) Lessons learned

5) Next steps

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Robert Vandehey is a Senior Director at Rovi Corporation. Robert has been solving enterprise problems in the banking and entertainment space for over 15 years. At Rovi, he leads the Cloud Services Platform group which is responsible for creating web services for delivering entertainment metadata from one of the world's largest collections available, offering a comprehensive catalog of high-quality editorial, descriptions and rich images—all optimized for multiple platforms. When Robert isn’t working, he enjoys running, biking, golfing and was training for an Ironman triathlon before breaking his leg in a bicycle accident in June.

Links:

Rovi Corporation (http://www.rovicorp.com/)

Rovi Cloud Services (http://www.rovicorp.com/solutions-for/developers.htm)

Robert on LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/in/bvandehey)