Stratified B-Tree and Versioned Dictionaries Andy Twigg (Acunu) Monday, June 20, 2011 ABSTRACT A classic versioned data structure in storage and computer science is the copy-on-write (CoW) B-tree — it underlies many of today’s file systems and databases, including WAFL, ZFS, Btrfs and more. Unfortunately, it doesn’t inherit the B-tree’s optimality properties; it has poor [...] [...more]
I’m thrilled to announce that we have finally cut off a branch and are ready to do the 0.90 open source release for Project Voldemort. For folks still enchanted by the Potter mania, no, I am not talking about Harry’s nemesis. Project Voldemort is an open-source distributed key-value store being used here at LinkedIn and [...] [...more]
State of HBase Michael Stack (StumbleUpon) Monday, July 18th, 2011 ABSTRACT Attendees will learn about the current state of the HBase project. We’ll review what the community is contributing, some of the more interesting production installs, killer apps on HBase, the on-again, off-again HBase+HDFS love affair, and what the near-future promises. A familiarity with BigTable [...] [...more]
Game Dynamics Rajat Paharia (Bunchball) Monday, July 25th, 2011 ABSTRACT Status, achievement, reward, competition, self-expression: by addressing these fundamental human needs and desires, designers can make experiences both compelling and satisfying. Game designers, in particular, have known for years how to incent and motivate players by addressing these needs through the use of mechanics like [...] [...more]
Kafka Neha Narkhede (LinkedIn) Wednesday, July 27, 2011 ABSTRACT Kafka is a distributed publish-subscribe messaging system aimed at providing a scalable, high-throughput, low latency solution for log aggregation and activity stream processing for LinkedIn. Built on Apache Zookeeper in Scala, Kafka aims at providing a unified stream for both real-time and offline consumption. We provide [...] [...more]
