Making The Switch to Cassandra from MySQL at Taboola, Including Benchmarks

I'm glad to announce our first Tel Aviv Cassandra meetup, sponsored by Taboola (https://www.taboola.com/) and DataStax (http://www.datastax.com)!

For the first time, we will meet together and exchange our Cassandra experiences, ask questions to each other and have some fun. There will be a presentation by Daniel Chen about their use of Apache Cassandra at Taboola, followed by a Q&A session.

I hope you're able to make it!

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Presentation Abstract

Daniel will talk about why Taboola.com (http://taboola.com/) chose Cassandra as their NoSQL implementation. He will dive into how they moved from a large MySQL replication based topology to a faster and more scaleable Cassandra cluster. Daniel will discuss how they used the New Relic (http://newrelic.com/) platform on their benchmark environment to measure the performance benefits of Cassandra.

About Daniel Chen

Mr. Daniel Chen is the head of IT at Taboola.com (http://taboola.com/), he received his first certifications while serving at an Elite intelligence unit of the IDF. During the Military Service which lasted 4 years Daniel Finished his BSc of computer Science at the Open University and practiced Database administration and Unix IT. Right after the Military Service, Daniel was offered to join a DB consulting company specialized in RDBMS databases. After a couple of years working as senior consultant he became a DBA architect at AT&T Israel, becoming responsible of all the data path planning and execution of the web-conference products. During that time Daniel was exposed to large scale topologies and new data structures and products - That was the first encounter with the NoSQL world. Moving forward with his Career Daniel Joined Websplanet to mange the IT department of the company forming a fully operative and structured IT team who supported many Customers across the globe. Daniel was offered to join Taboola.com (http://taboola.com/) to form a fully operative IT department that will be able to grow to enormous scales and serve many customers. At Taboola.com (http://taboola.com/) Daniel started with a very small IT team consisting of 2 employees. To support the scale demand Daniel formed a full scale Production IT team, Office IT Team Across the globe, a NOC Team which provides 24X7 direct response to production incidents and a shared IT/Infra team(R&D). Taboola.com (http://taboola.com/) has 5 Datacenters around the globe serving Billions of recommendations per day using Datastax's version of Apache Cassandra. Daniel Lives in a suburb of Tel-Aviv with his wife and a small cat. You can visit his technical blog here: lovesbigdata.com (http://lovesbigdata.com/)

Agenda 6:00pm - Food/Beverage/Social

6:30pm - Taboola + Apache Cassandra Presentation

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We are actively searching for future speakers! If you have something to say about your real-life Cassandra experience, please feel free to email me at Brady@DataStax.com and send your topic/agenda.