8:30am PST
8:35am PST
Keynote - Prepare to Love Scylla Even More
Speakers
CEO, ScyllaDB
Dor Laor is the CEO of ScyllaDB. Previously, Dor was part of the founding team of the KVM hypervisor under Qumranet that was acquired by Red Hat. At Red Hat Dor was managing the KVM and Xen development for several years. Dor holds an MSc from the Technion and a Phd in snowboardin...
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Tuesday January 12, 2021 8:35am - 8:55am PST
Main Stage
8:55am PST
Keynote - Testing Scylla with Jepsen
Speakers
Principal, Jepsen
Kyle Kingsbury is a computer safety researcher working as an independent consultant. He's the author of the Riemann monitoring system, the Clojure from the Ground Up introduction to programming, and the Jepsen series on distributed systems correctness. He grills databases in the American...
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Tuesday January 12, 2021 8:55am - 9:16am PST
Main Stage
9:16am PST
Raft in Scylla
Speakers
Software Team Leader, ScyllaDB
Kostja is a well-known expert in the DBMS world, spending most of his career developing open-source DBMS including Tarantool and MySQL. At ScyllaDB his focus is transaction support and synchronous replication.
Tuesday January 12, 2021 9:16am - 9:32am PST
Main Stage
9:32am PST
9:44am PST
Empowering the DynamoDB Application Developer with Alternator
Speakers
Distinguished Engineer, ScyllaDB
Nadav Har'El has had a diverse 20-year career in computer programming and computer science. Among other things, he worked on high-performance scientific computing, networking software, information retrieval and data mining, virtualization and operating systems. Today he works on...
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Tuesday January 12, 2021 9:44am - 9:56am PST
Main Stage
9:56am PST
GE Healthcare: Enabling Precision Health with Edison AI
Speakers
Director of Engineering, Edison AI, GE Healthcare
Sandeep Lakshmipathy is the Director of Engineering for Edison AI at GE Healthcare. He currently leads several initiatives to accelerate AI product development across healthcare products. Sandeep holds a B.Tech in Computer Science from Bangalore University, a Master’s degree in...
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Tuesday January 12, 2021 9:56am - 10:07am PST
Main Stage
10:07am PST
Scylla Operator 1.0
Speakers
Software Engineer, ScyllaDB
Maciej is a Go and C++ enthusiast. He is a software engineer working on Scylla management tools. Previously he worked in network companies where he delivered multiple features to SDN solutions and LTE networks.
Tuesday January 12, 2021 10:07am - 10:21am PST
Main Stage
10:21am PST
Grab at Scale with Scylla
Speakers
Software Dev Engineer Manager, Grab
Chao is working on Grab’s Trust team and contributing on building the ML driven fraud detection platformWorked on moving the engineering and the machine learning challenges forward in the last 5 more years
Engineer, Grab
• Arun works on design, automation of reliable and scalable NoSQL datastores, operating in a cloud environment across Grab.• Worked at Starbucks building highly resilient scalable infrastructure and a distributed datastore for Rewards program in North America and Japan market...
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Tuesday January 12, 2021 10:21am - 10:35am PST
Main Stage
10:35am PST
10:40am PST
Scylla's Journey Towards Being an Elastic Cloud Native Database
Speakers
VP of R&D, ScyllaDB
Shlomi Livne has 15 years of experience in software development of large scale systems. Previously he has led the research and development team at Convergin, which was acquired by Oracle. Shlomi holds a BA and MSc in Computer Science from the Technion-Machon Technologi Le’ Isra...
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Tuesday January 12, 2021 10:40am - 10:50am PST
Main Stage
10:50am PST
11:06am PST
Scylla Cloud on Display
Speakers
Director of Engineering, ScyllaDB
Twenty years of experience working in the software engineering industry with a focus on distributed systems and big data infrastructure. Leadership position as platform R&D manager in several high-scale companies during intense growth period from small startups to large companies...
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Software Developer, ScyllaDB
Noam Hasson has over 15 years of experience in software development, starting with web development and moving into big data six years ago. After 6 years of working with Cassandra, he is excited to join the team that develops Scylla.
Tuesday January 12, 2021 11:06am - 11:19am PST
Main Stage
11:19am PST
Scylla @ GumGum: Contextual Ads
Speakers
Senior Manager, Ad Server, GumGum
Keith is an agile engineering manager experienced in bringing together teams both remote and local, tying in stakeholders, and making things better for all parties. Always exploring new technologies with the perspective of a legion of failed 'better ways.”
Tuesday January 12, 2021 11:19am - 11:34am PST
Main Stage
11:35am PST
Expero/QOMPLX: Using Scylla with JanusGraph for Cyber Security
Speakers
Director of Engineering at QOMPLX, Inc., Qomplx
Angad leads development of QOMPLX's cloud-based Enterprise Operating System, Q:OS – a unified analytics infrastructure for enterprise decision making. Angad holds a B.E. in Electronics & Telecom from the University of Pune, India, and an MSc in Information Systems from Virginia...
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Graph & Analytics Practice Leader, Expero
Brian leads the Graph and Analytics Practice at Expero, with consulting expertise across a wide array of graph engines including JanusGraph, DataStax, Neo4j, Tigergraph, Neptune, and CosmosDB. Brian has been developing software and consulting for over 25 years and holds a B.S. in...
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Tuesday January 12, 2021 11:35am - 11:47am PST
Main Stage
11:47am PST
Ticketmaster Performance Test: Scylla, DataStax DSE and Apache Cassandra
Speakers
VP, Data platform, Ticketmaster
Linda Xu is the Vice President of Data Platform at Ticketmaster, where she has worked on both SQL and NoSQL infrastructure for over a decade. Her work included providing and maintaining data/database platforms for Ticketmaster’s core transaction and consumer experiences system...
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Tuesday January 12, 2021 11:47am - 12:02pm PST
12:02pm PST
8:30am PST
8:35am PST
Keynote - Meeting the Challenge of Big Data with Scylla
Speakers
CTO, ScyllaDB
Kivity, CTO of ScyllaDB, is known mostly for starting the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) project, the hypervisor underlying many production clouds. He has worked for Qumranet and Red Hat as KVM maintainer until December 2012. Avi is now CTO of ScyllaDB, a company that seeks to...
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Wednesday January 13, 2021 8:35am - 9:05am PST
Main Stage
9:05am PST
Best Practices for Change Data Capture in Scylla
Speakers
Software Developer, ScyllaDB
Co-founder of Appeal Virtual Machines and one of the principal architects behind the JRockit JVM, Calle Wilund has an extensive background in software development, specializing in virtual machines, compiler technologies and high performance computing as well as systems manageabil...
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Wednesday January 13, 2021 9:05am - 9:19am PST
Main Stage
9:19am PST
Confluent: Streaming Data from Scylla to Kafka
Speakers
Senior Director of Developer Advocacy, Confluent
Tim is a teacher, author and technology leader with Confluent, where he serves as the Senior Director of Developer Advocacy. He can frequently be found speaking at conferences all over the world. He is the co-presenter of various O’Reilly training videos on topics ranging from Git...
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Wednesday January 13, 2021 9:19am - 9:32am PST
Main Stage
9:32am PST
Numberly: Getting the Scylla Shard-Aware Drivers Faster
Speakers
CTO, Numberly
Alexys is CTO at Numberly. He is an open-source contributor, a Gentoo Linux developer, and PSF contributing member. He enjoys sharing his experience on architecture design, distributed systems, fault tolerance and scaling Python.
Wednesday January 13, 2021 9:32am - 9:43am PST
Main Stage
9:43am PST
Scylla Performance Enhancements: Year in Review
Speakers
Distinguished Engineer, ScyllaDB
Tomasz Grabiec is a software engineer currently working on ScyllaDB and Seastar. Prior to that, he worked on the OSv unikernel. Before joining ScyllaDB he worked on systems built in Java technology for UBS IB and Sabre Holdings. He was a contributor to the Jato JVM project.
Wednesday January 13, 2021 9:43am - 9:56am PST
Main Stage
9:56am PST
Mail.ru: High-Load Storage of Users' Actions with Scylla and HDDs
Speakers
Software Engineering Team Lead, Mail.Ru
Kirill is a software engineering team lead for the largest email service provider in Russia. Kirill graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University with a Master’s Degree in Computer Science. He loves coding, music and parties.
Wednesday January 13, 2021 9:56am - 10:09am PST
Main Stage
10:09am PST
The All-New Scylla Monitoring Stack
Speakers
Software Developer, ScyllaDB
Amnon has 15 years of experience in software development of large scale systems. Previously he worked at Convergin, which was acquired by Oracle. Amnon holds a BA and MSc in Computer Science from the Technion-Machon Technologi Le’ Israel and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.
Wednesday January 13, 2021 10:09am - 10:19am PST
Main Stage
10:19am PST
Expedia: Our Migration to Scylla
Speakers
Data Architect, Expedia group
Singaram is a seasoned data professional who’s passionate about distributed database systems, highly scalable big data models, data pipelines and application software. He has fun building database infrastructure as code and helping application teams with their journey to cloud...
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Database Reliability Engineer & Cloud Engineer, Expedia Group
Wednesday January 13, 2021 10:19am - 10:30am PST
Main Stage
10:30am PST
10:40am PST
How We Made Scylla Maintenance Easier, Safer and Faster
Speakers
Software Developer, ScyllaDB
Asias He is a software developer with over 10 years of experience in programming. In the past, he worked on Debian Project, Solaris Kernel, KVM Virtualization for Linux, OSv unikernel. He now works on Seastar and ScyllaDB.
Wednesday January 13, 2021 10:40am - 10:51am PST
Main Stage
10:51am PST
11:04am PST
Developing Scylla Applications: Practical Tips
Speakers
Software Engineer, ScyllaDB
Kamil is a software engineer working on Scylla. He’s passionate about distributed systems, functional programming and formal methods in software development. Kamil graduated from the University of Warsaw with BSc in Computer Science and Mathematics.
Wednesday January 13, 2021 11:04am - 11:18am PST
Main Stage
11:18am PST
Broadpeak: Building a Video Streaming Testing Framework with Seastar
Speakers
Senior R&D Engineer, Broadpeak
Nicolas Le Scouarnec is an R&D engineer at Broadpeak, a provider of CDN equipment for ISPs. He likes squeezing as much performance as possible from hardware. He currently focuses on performance evaluation of video delivery systems. Previously, he worked on optimizing networked systems...
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Wednesday January 13, 2021 11:18am - 11:32am PST
Main Stage
11:32am PST
11:45am PST
Ola’s Journey with ScyllaDB
Speakers
Engineering Manager, Ola Cabs
Anil is a database engineer at Ola Cabs, where he works on database and infrastructure. Prior to Ola, he worked on Snapdeal/PayTM’s data infrastructure. His expertise is architecting databases for scale.
Wednesday January 13, 2021 11:45am - 11:55am PST
Main Stage
11:55am PST
8:30am PST
8:35am PST
Getting Started with Scylla
Speakers
Training Product Lead, ScyllaDB
Guy is experienced in creating products that people love. Previously he co-founded two start-ups. Outside of the office, you can find him climbing, juggling and generally getting off the beaten path. Guy holds a B.SC. degree in Software Engineering from Ben Gurion University.
8:35am PST
Kubernetes Operator
Speakers
Solutions Architect, ScyllaDB
Moreno Garcia is a problem solver by talent and trade. He has worked in IT for 15 years, the last five as a solution architect. An open source software enthusiast, Moreno loves applying new technology to solve old problems, and hates acronyms with a passion.
9:30am PST
Advanced Monitoring and Best Practices
Speakers
VP of R&D, ScyllaDB
Shlomi Livne has 15 years of experience in software development of large scale systems. Previously he has led the research and development team at Convergin, which was acquired by Oracle. Shlomi holds a BA and MSc in Computer Science from the Technion-Machon Technologi Le’ Isra...
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9:30am PST
How to Write Better Apps
Speakers
VP of Product, ScyllaDB
Tzach Livyatan has a B.A. and MSc in Computer Science (Technion, Summa Cum Laude), and has had a 15 year career in development, system engineering and product management. In the past he worked in the Telecom domain, focusing on carrier grade systems, signalling, policy and charging...
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10:30am PST
Scylla Alternator: Migrations without Compromise
Speakers
Developer Advocate, ScyllaDB
“In a world where anything has an API, everything is a software problem.” This insight has guided Avishai Ish-Shalom throughout his diverse career working on improving the complex socio-technical systems that create an operate modern software and promoting the use of Mathematics...
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10:30am PST
Scylla Manager and Cluster Administration
Speakers
Customer Success Manager, ScyllaDB
Tomer Sandler joined ScyllaDB as a solution architect after a 12 year career in SW Quality Engineering, mostly in storage and telecom lawful interception domains. Prior to ScyllaDB, Tomer held various QA management roles at Dell EMC, leading a group of QA engineers and information...
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11:25am PST