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Scylla Summit 2019

9:00am PST

Welcome & Keynote

Speakers

Dor Laor

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... Read More →

Tuesday November 5, 2019 9:00am - 9:30am PST
Cyril Magnin Ballroom Parc 55 San Francisco, A Hilton Hotel

Keynote/General Session

9:30am PST

Keynote: Scylla Now and Beyond

Speakers

Avi Kivity

CTO, ScyllaDB

Avi 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... Read More →

Tuesday November 5, 2019 9:30am - 9:50am PST
Cyril Magnin Ballroom Parc 55 San Francisco, A Hilton Hotel

Keynote/General Session

9:50am PST

Comcast: Sprinting from Cassandra to ScyllaDB

Comcast’s X1 platform supports more than 30 million set top boxes and another 15 million more “second screen” devices used on a monthly basis. Their X1 Scheduler processes over 2 billion RESTful calls daily. To meet that scale, the X1 Scheduler uses multiple datastore technologies, including Cassandra, MongoDB, Elasticsearch and Scylla. Learn how Scylla was introduced into the Comcast NoSQL ecosystem earlier this year, and how they anticipate saving over 60% of their Cassandra operating costs once the migration is complete. Learn the methodology Comcast used through their evaluation, risk analysis and testing processes, plus details of their benchmarking, migration and deployment plans.

Speakers

Philip Zimich

Senior Director of Software Development & Engineering, Comcast

Phil is a Sr Director of Engineering where he leads the architecture, development, operations of the Comcast’s X1 Scheduler system. The X1 Scheduler powers the DVR and program reminder experience on the X1 platform. He has prioritized challenging the status quo by testing new technologies... Read More →

Tuesday November 5, 2019 9:50am - 10:15am PST
Cyril Magnin Ballroom Parc 55 San Francisco, A Hilton Hotel

Keynote/General Session

10:15am PST

Kiwi.com Reaches Cruising Altitude with Scylla

Speakers

Martin Strycek

Head of Infrastructure, Kiwi.com

Passionate about his work helping companies grow by constant innovation in technology, Martin was employee number 3 at piano.io, a world leader for online content monetization. Steered technology growth at Exponea, the Fastest Growing SaaS in Europe. Now managing ScyllaDB and GCP... Read More →

Tuesday November 5, 2019 10:15am - 10:40am PST
Cyril Magnin Ballroom Parc 55 San Francisco, A Hilton Hotel

Keynote/General Session

10:40am PST

Scylla User Awards

Join us as we recognize the most pioneering companies adopting our technology and individual leaders contributing to the community.

Speakers

Greg Matza

Enterprise Account Executive, ScyllaDB

In the few hours a day when Greg Matza is not advocating for Scylla adoption, you can probably find him either writing a cookbook or enjoying a nap – while dreaming of either Scylla or cookbooks. Greg has been selling various software and services around Silicon Valley for over... Read More →

Dor Laor

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... Read More →

Tuesday November 5, 2019 10:40am - 10:50am PST
Cyril Magnin Ballroom Parc 55 San Francisco, A Hilton Hotel

Keynote/General Session

10:50am PST

Morning Break

Tuesday November 5, 2019 10:50am - 11:05am PST
Cyril Magnin Ballroom Parc 55 San Francisco, A Hilton Hotel

Food & Networking

11:05am PST

How to Be Successful with Scylla

Should I use more, smaller instances, or fewer, bigger instances? Is 1Gbps enough for my network cards? Should I use batches? Can I have a collection with 3GB in size? Those are just some of the many questions we see users asking themselves on a daily basis over our mailing list, slack, and corporate ticket requests. In this talk I will explore the answers to these common questions and help you make sure that your deployment is up to the highest standards.

Speakers

Glauber Costa

VP Field Engineering, ScyllaDB

Glauber Costa is VP of Field Engineering at ScyllaDB. He shares his time between the engineering department working on upcoming Scylla features and helping customers succeed.Before ScyllaDB, Glauber worked with Virtualization in the Linux Kernel for 10 years, with contributions ranging... Read More →

Tuesday November 5, 2019 11:05am - 11:35am PST
Cyril Magnin Ballroom Parc 55 San Francisco, A Hilton Hotel

Keynote/General Session

11:35am PST

MongoDB vs Scylla: Production Experience from Both Dev & Ops Standpoint at Numberly

MongoDB has become the prominent NoSQL database engine and is now used for a wide variety of use cases because of its flexibility and ease of use for developers, while Scylla, a C++ rewrite of Cassandra, provides benefits through its architectural approach, including getting rid of the JVM and a CPU-level design that gets the most out of your hardware thanks to a CPU level design.

Numberly has been using MongoDB for over a decade and Scylla for over a year in production. The benefits of the Scylla architecture allied to the Cassandra ecosystem fuel a rapid adoption in a very wide range of use cases: from real-time data pipelines and analytics batches processing to web applications database backend.

Learn the motivations of such an adoption trend and why it proves to be successful so far while outlining its limits and why MongoDB is still here to stay!

Speakers

Alexys Jacob

CTO, Numberly

Alexys is CTO at Numberly, an Open-Source contributor, a Gentoo Linux developer, and PSF contributing member. He has been giving talks for a few years now, mostly to share his experience on architecture design, distributed systems, fault tolerance and scaling Python.

Tuesday November 5, 2019 11:35am - 12:15pm PST
Cyril Magnin Ballroom Parc 55 San Francisco, A Hilton Hotel

Keynote/General Session

3:15pm PST

Afternoon Break

Get your afternoon caffeine fix and stop by to meet our Sponsors!

Tuesday November 5, 2019 3:15pm - 3:30pm PST
Cyril Magnin Ballroom Parc 55 San Francisco, A Hilton Hotel

Food & Networking

1:00pm PST

How ReversingLabs Serves File Reputation Service for 10B Files

ReversingLabs is on a mission to deliver threat intelligence to their users by providing complete visibility and insight into every destructive object. To deliver on their commitment, they migrated to Scylla to handle thousands of updates per second in their processing engines. In their talk they will go over their requirements and show how they tuned the system to handle requests from their API frontend.

Speakers

Goran Cvijanovic

Software Architect, ReversingLabs

Open Source Databases integration and optimization, Oracle & Microsoft databases specialist, Goran has 20+ years of experience in information technology with more than 15+ years in database systems integration, migration and tuning.He holds a MSc in Computer Science from the Faculty... Read More →

Wednesday November 6, 2019 1:00pm - 1:30pm PST
Cyril Magnin Ballroom Parc 55 San Francisco, A Hilton Hotel

Keynote/General Session

1:30pm PST

Lookout on Scaling Security to 100 Million Devices

The massive increase of security-related data requires companies to respond with new approaches to ingestion. Learn how Lookout has changed its approach for ingesting telemetry to meet their goal of growing from 1.5 million devices to 100 million devices and beyond, using Kafka Connect and switching from AWS DynamoDB to Scylla.

Speakers

Richard Ney

Senior Staff Engineer, Lookout

Richard Ney has over 30 years of experience with event pipelines and data retrieval. He currently works as an architect and senior developer at Lookout Inc on the Ingestion Pipeline and Query Services team working on the next scale of data ingestion.

Wednesday November 6, 2019 1:30pm - 2:00pm PST
Cyril Magnin Ballroom Parc 55 San Francisco, A Hilton Hotel

Keynote/General Session

2:00pm PST

Writing Applications for Scylla

Speakers

Shlomi Livne

VP 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... Read More →

Wednesday November 6, 2019 2:00pm - 2:30pm PST
Cyril Magnin Ballroom Parc 55 San Francisco, A Hilton Hotel

Keynote/General Session

2:30pm PST

Afternoon Break

Time for cookies!

Wednesday November 6, 2019 2:30pm - 2:50pm PST
Cyril Magnin Ballroom Parc 55 San Francisco, A Hilton Hotel

Food & Networking

2:50pm PST

Change Data Capture in Scylla

A brief overview of the upcoming Change Data Capture (CDC) functionality in Scylla. What to expect of this key feature in terms of its purpose, design and the utility it provides. Plus appropriate use cases and comparisons with other industry solutions.

Speakers

Calle Wilund

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... Read More →

Wednesday November 6, 2019 2:50pm - 3:20pm PST
Cyril Magnin Ballroom Parc 55 San Francisco, A Hilton Hotel

Keynote/General Session

3:20pm PST

Lightweight Transactions at Lightning Speed

This talk will outline the Scylla implementation of Lightweight Transactions (LWT) that brings us to parity with Apache Cassandra. We will cover how to use it, what is working, and what is left to be done. We will also cover what other improvements are in store to improve Scylla's transactional capabilities and why it matters.

Speakers

Konstantin Osipov

Software Team Lead, 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.

Wednesday November 6, 2019 3:20pm - 4:00pm PST
Cyril Magnin Ballroom Parc 55 San Francisco, A Hilton Hotel

Keynote/General Session

4:00pm PST

Free & Open DynamoDB API for Everyone

Scylla began with a Cassandra compatibility story, implementing Cassandra’s query language (CQL) and replicating its user-visible architecture. Recently we introduced “Alternator” - an experimental feature adding compatibility with a second NoSQL database: Amazon’s DynamoDB. In this talk we look at why DynamoDB’s API was chosen as a good target for our API extension, how DynamoDB is similar to Scylla - and how it differs, and how we can implement DynamoDB’s API in Scylla. We will describe our progress so far in making Alternator compatible with DynamoDB - and what still remains to be done so that any DynamoDB application can run unmodified on Scylla.

Speakers

Nadav Har'El

Distinguished Engineer, ScyllaDB

Nadav Har’El has had a diverse 20-year career in computer programming and computer science. In the past he worked on scientific computing, networking software, and information retrieval, but in recent years his focus has been on virtualization and operating systems, and among other... Read More →

Wednesday November 6, 2019 4:00pm - 4:30pm PST
Cyril Magnin Ballroom Parc 55 San Francisco, A Hilton Hotel

Keynote/General Session

4:30pm PST

UDF, UDA, and What's in the Future

Scylla is now capable of executing user-defined functions and user-defined aggregates. That allows queries to be more flexible, and in many situations, by avoiding server -> client data transfers, faster too. In this talk, we will look at the infrastructure added to Scylla to make it happen. One key piece of that infrastructure, is the integration of a programming language interpreter that allows the users to inject their own custom code. But once that happens, where do we stop? We will look into proposed extensions to Scylla to leverage this infrastructure to allow Scylla to consume your data in faster, more efficient, and creative ways.

Speakers

Avi Kivity

CTO, ScyllaDB

Avi 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... Read More →

Wednesday November 6, 2019 4:30pm - 5:00pm PST
Cyril Magnin Ballroom Parc 55 San Francisco, A Hilton Hotel

Keynote/General Session

5:00pm PST

Live AMA: Ask Us Anything!

Speakers

Dor Laor

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... Read More →

Glauber Costa

VP Field Engineering, ScyllaDB

Glauber Costa is VP of Field Engineering at ScyllaDB. He shares his time between the engineering department working on upcoming Scylla features and helping customers succeed.Before ScyllaDB, Glauber worked with Virtualization in the Linux Kernel for 10 years, with contributions ranging... Read More →

Avi Kivity

CTO, ScyllaDB

Avi 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... Read More →

Wednesday November 6, 2019 5:00pm - 5:15pm PST
Cyril Magnin Ballroom Parc 55 San Francisco, A Hilton Hotel

Keynote/General Session