Mike Saffitz - Event Ingestion at Scale

Mike Saffitz, CTO of Apptentive will be giving a talk on Event Ingestion at Scale:

Apptentive ingests over one billion events per day from their mobile SDKs. Each of these events needs to be deduplicated, validated, and brought into our analysis and reporting systems as we help our customers use their mobile apps to engage with their consumers. During the talk, we’ll look at our current ingestion pipeline that includes Scala, Akka, Kafka, Cassandra, Druid, and more. We’ll talk about how we got here and the changes to scaling our pipeline over the years, and we’ll also present alternative approaches and a look towards the future of event ingestion at scale.

About Mike:

Co-Founder and CTO at Apptentive:

Mike grew up in Seattle, skiing, fishing, hiking, and camping in between creating bulletin board systems and building some of the Internet’s earliest websites. He attended Pomona College, majored in Computer Science and Mathematical Economics, and still daydreams about combining the two. After college, Mike spent several years in Philadelphia at the Penn Center for Bioinformatics, where he managed “big data” infrastructure and visualization. Upon returning to Seattle, Mike joined Microsoft where he spent 5 years as the Program Manager for the Windows Phone Developer Experience, during which time he was responsible for developer engagement, application compatibility, the Windows Phone 7 Developer Tools, and the Windows Phone 7 multitasking framework.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/msaffitz
Twitter: https://twitter.com/msaffitz

Doors open at 6. Talk at 6:30.

Big thanks to Apptentive for sponsoring this month's Meetup! They're hosting us and providing food/drinks. They're hiring, find out about their open positions here: https://www.apptentive.com/about/career

About Apptentive:

Apptentive’s Mobile Customer Experience software empowers companies to build brands customers love by understanding their behavior and expectations. The product gives brands the opportunity to listen to, engage with, and retain their customers through intelligently timed surveys, messages, and prompts. Integrated into thousands of mobile apps, Apptentive helps companies proactively engage customer segments, track customer sentiment, boost app ratings, drive downloads, and earn loyalty. The company powers millions of customer interactions every month for companies including Buffalo Wild Wings, eBay, Intercontinental Hotels Group, Philips, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Viacom. The company is based in Seattle, Washington.

https://www.apptentive.com/about/
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