Tareq Abedrabbo

Building a Scalable Event Service with Cassandra: Design to Code

Tareq Abedrabbo

Building a Scalable Event Service with Cassandra: Design to Code

Increasingly, modern-day platforms seek to achieve scalability, fault-tolerance and flexibility through the use of micro services and event-driven architectures. These systems frequently are required to reliably handle massive and variable data volumes in near real time.
This is the story of how a small team approached the design and implementation of a scalable event service backed by Cassandra, in the context of a major high-street retail organisation.
This talk puts the event service we built with Cassandra into its full context, highlighting the design and implementation decisions that we had to adopt, sometimes in a counterintuitive manner, to balance the competing concerns of performance, capability and evolution.
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About Tareq

Tareq is Chief Technical Officer at OpenCredo. He is continually involved in the delivery of innovative projects, frequently incorporating NoSQL/Big Data and Cloud platforms, to a wide range of organisations. His approach is highly pragmatic and hands-on, and focuses on problem solving and delivering value to his clients.

Tareq has a strong interest in programming languages, ranging from Scala and Python to Google Go. He has expert knowledge in a number of NoSQL technologies, including Neo4j, MongoDB and Redis. He is also co-author of Neo4j in action, the comprehensive guide to Neo4j.

Tareq has been actively involved with the Spring project since the early days, and has been a committer on Spring Web Services.

 

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Twitter: @tareq_abedrabbo

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