Databases
Parting the Clouds: The Rise of Disaggregated Systems
Monday Nov 17 / 01:35PM PST
Cloud systems are undergoing an architectural shift. Traditional shared-nothing designs struggle to deliver the elasticity, availability, and operational simplicity that the cloud demands.
Murat Demirbas
Principal Research Scientist @MongoDB Research, Previously Principal Applied Scientist @AWS and a Professor of Computer Science at the University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Stripe’s Docdb: How Zero-Downtime Data Movement Powers Trillion-Dollar Payment Processing
Tuesday Nov 18 / 02:45PM PST
Stripe processes over $1 trillion in payments annually with industry-leading reliability, powered by its custom-built document database, DocDB, built on top of open source MongoDB. Stripe's DocDB serves over five million queries per second from Stripe’s product applications.
Jimmy Morzaria
Staff Software Engineer @Stripe, Previously Software Engineer on Amazon QLDB and Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka
Write-Ahead Intent Log: A Foundation for Efficient CDC at Scale
Wednesday Nov 19 / 03:55PM PST
As companies grow, so does the complexity of keeping distributed systems in sync. At DoorDash, we tackled this challenge while building a high-throughput, domain-oriented data platform for capturing changes across hundreds of services.
Vinay Chella
Engineering Leader @DoorDash - Specializing in Distributed Systems, Streaming & Storage Platforms, Apache Cassandra Committer, Previously Engineering Leader @Netflix
Akshat Goel
Staff Software Engineer, Core Infra at @DoorDash, Previously Senior Software Engineer @Amazon