London In-Memory Computing Meetup
Akmal Chaudhri, GridGain’s technology evangelist, will be a featured presenter at the
inaugural London In-Memory Computing Meetup on February 7. He'll be discussing how to build
consistent and highly available distributed systems. His talk is titled, "Building consistent and highly available
distributed systems with Apache Ignite and GridGain." RSVP now to reserve your spot!
Summary: It is well known that there is a tradeoff between data consistency and high availability.
However, there are many applications that require very strong consistency guarantees. Making such applications
highly available can be a significant challenge. Akmal will explain how to overcome these challenges. Specific
guidelines will be presented on how to build such systems covering topics including:
• In-memory
backups
• Data persistence
• Data center replication
• Full and incremental snapshots.
Akmal will use the open-source Apache®
Ignite™ as well as GridGain, which was
built upon Apache Ignite, during his talk. What is Apache Ignite? It's a memory-centric distributed database,
caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds
at petabyte scale. Ignite is Used by ING, HomeAway, Wellington, FSB, The Glue, 24 Hour Fitness, JacTravel
and many more.
At the end of this talk, you'll have better understanding of how Apache Ignite and
GridGain work, and how to use different features of these products to build applications that are both consistent
and highly available. (Connect with Akmal on Twitter @akmalchaudhri.
Agenda:
• 6:30 -- food, drinks, networking
• 7 p.m. -- Talk 1,
"Building consistent and highly available distributed systems with Apache Ignite and GridGain."
• 8 p.m. --
Talk 2 (TBD)
About the speaker:
Akmal Chaudhri, PhD., is GridGain’s Technology Evangelist. His role is to help build the global Apache Ignite community and raise awareness through presentations and technical writing. Akmal has over 25 years experience in IT and has previously held roles as a developer, consultant, product strategist and technical trainer. He has worked for several blue-chip companies such as Reuters and IBM, and also the Big Data startups Hortonworks (Hadoop) and DataStax (Cassandra NoSQL Database).
Technical Evangelist, GridGain Systems