Bay Area In-Memory Computing Meetup

GridGain lead architect Valentin (Val) Kulichenko will be speaking at the Bay Area In-Memory Computing Meetup Dec. 13. The title of is talk: “Want extreme performance at scale? Do distributed the RIGHT way!”

Summary: It’s well known that distributed systems rely very much on horizontal scalability. The more machines in your cluster - the better performance of your application, right? Well, not always. While a database can provide rich capabilities to achieve lightning fast performance, it’s an engineer's responsibility to use these capabilities properly as there are a lot of ways to mess things up.

During this meetup, Valentin Kulichenko, GridGain System’s Lead Architect, will talk about challenges and pitfalls one may face when architecting and developing a distributed system. Valentin will show how to take advantage of the affinity collocation concept that is one of the most powerful and usually undervalued technique provided by distributed systems. He will take Apache Ignite as a database for his experiments covering these moments in particular:

What is data affinity and why is it important for distributed systems? What is affinity colocation and how does it help to improve performance? How does affinity colocation affects execution of distributed computations and distributed SQL queries? And more…

After this talk, you will have better understanding about how distributed systems work under the hood, and will be able to better design your applications based on them.