DataStax open house / Meet the Experts/ Rick Branson on Data Modeling
Details
As many of you know, it has been a problem finding a suitable location for the Silicon Valley Cassandra meetup. In December, DataStax moved to new offices in San Mateo. The new facility includes a 100+ seat auditorium -- which will be available for Cassandra and other meetups.
The first meeting of 2012 will be held on Wednesday January 18. Prior to the meeting, DataStax will host an open house and "Meet the Experts" session at their new offices.
AGENDA
5:30: Meet the Experts and Open House. Top Cassandra engineers from DataStax will be on available to answer your Cassandra questions. There is no charge for this. DataStax will also be providing food and refreshments, so feel free to come straight from work.
7:00pm Silicon Valley Cassandra Users meetup (in the auditorium). This month's speaker will be Rick Branson giving the following presentation:
"Distributed Locks: 60% of the time, it works every time."
Summary:
Dealing with certain kinds of data in eventually consistent systems can be bit of a mind bender. Without the total ordering afforded by lesser data stores, people often end up going down paths like distributed locking and two-phase commit, ruining the availability, scalability and flexibility they love so much. Join me as I walk us through some clever designs that solve many of these problems while still retaining the benefits reaped from eventual consistency. In addition, I'll also talk about some under-the-radar features in the upcoming 1.1 release that will make possible a class of previously intractable problems in data modeling with Cassandra.
Bio:
Rick is an Apache Cassandra contributor and an architect at DataStax where he helps people use Cassandra effectively.
If you'd like to present at an upcoming Cassandra meetup, send a note to lynnbender at datastax.com