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SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/ClaudiuBarbura/lessons-learned-from-embedding-cassandra-in-xpatterns

In this talk we’ll share some of the hard lessons we’ve learned while leveraging Cassandra in large-scale enterprise-grade deployments. We will focus on three specific areas, in which we identified consistent best practices & design patterns, which over time we’ve embedded & automated as part of our big data analytics platform.

The first is data model optimization, in particular when exporting data from HDFS into Cassandra. The second is publishing & operating REST API’s on top of Cassandra stores, including throttling, instrumentation & automated retries. The third is geo-replication, specifically when highly sensitive data is involved and extra security controls must be in place. The talk includes a hands-on demo of the tools we’ve built, plus an open discussion about the key design choices and recommendations for future projects.

Claudiu is Atigeo’s Senior Director of Engineering, Platform Services, and oversees agile engineering teams in the US and Romania while also acting as Lead Architect in building and operating xPatterns, an enterprise-class, Big Data Analytics platform. Claudiu has 17 years of industry experience in various roles, with a strong passion for Software Architecture leveraging industry best patterns and practices and contributing with a significant level of innovation. His experience spans across the Open Source, Big Data and Microsoft’s Windows/.Net technology stacks.

As Atigeo’s Senior Vice President of Engineering, David Talby leads product development and management of teams in the US and Europe. David was a featured speaker at Strata Rx, AHIMA, and Software Practice Advancement. Prior to Atigeo, David managed Microsoft’s US and European business operations teams for Bing Shopping, and built and ran distributed teams at Amazon which scaled Amazon’s financial systems. David has 25 published papers & patents to date, and holds both a PhD in Computer Science and an MBA from Hebrew University of Jerusalem.