Sessions at SXSW Interactive 2012 about Cassandra in Ballroom BC

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Tuesday 13th March 2012

• Freakin' Fast Cassandra: How Do They Do It?

  by Ryan King and Tom Wilkie

  Ryan King (System Engineer at Twitter) and Tom Wilkie (co-founder and VP engineering at Acunu) delve into the bowels of Apache Cassandra, the highly scalable second-generation distributed database in use at Twitter, Netflix and more others.

  In this talk, they'll look at how Cassandra works and show you how to make it growl!

  This dual session will share the journey the Cassandra team at Twitter has taken to make Cassandra deliver on its promises while Acunu will talk about the dramatic performance improvements that take place when you move some of the heavy-lifting into the Linux kernel, by using the open source storage engine for Big Data, codename Castle.

  • Cassandra
  • NoSQL

  At 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Tuesday 13th March

  In Ballroom BC, Austin Convention Center

  Coverage slide deck audio clip