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Come meet our Open Source Apache Cassandra experts, hear helpful talks, and enjoy an evening of networking!
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Say goodbye to complex, custom solutions and hello to scalable, reliable, and easy-to-configure Change Data Capture (CDC) for your Apache Cassandra cluster. We'll introduce a game-changing new feature for the Apache Cassandra Sidecar: native integration with Apache Kafka for CDC, as outlined in CEP-44. We will cover how this new, out-of-the-box solution leverages the Sidecar to stream CDC mutations directly to Kafka topics, ensuring high availability and honoring your configured consistency levels.
Bernardo Botella Corbi, Sr. Software Engineer, Apple
In this talk, we'll take a deep dive into the architecture that empowers Netflix Live Events. We'll explore how Apache Cassandra's capabilities are leveraged to meet the unique challenges of live broadcasting at scale, and how automated workflows—integrated with Netflix's event metadata and orchestration systems—enable timely capacity reservation and scaling. This automation allows Apache Cassandra to seamlessly support real-time data needs for millions of viewers, ensuring every live event is delivered with the performance and reliability Netflix is known for.
 Cheng Wang, Sr. Software Engineer, Netflix
The AWS Keyspaces team will talk through our journey into open source, touch upon some of our contributions, and share what’s coming up in CEP-50.
Yashwanth Annapureddy, Engineering Manager, AWS Keyspaces
Himanshu Jindhal, Sr. Software Engineer, AWS Keyspaces
Joel Shepherd, Princpal Engineer, AWS Keyspaces
Uber redefined Materialized Views with CEP-48! Come understand Uber's design principles and how strict consistency is achieved, how view data is synchronized and repaired, and what operational workflows make Materialized Views viable at scale and production ready. Uber will share their experience implementing and validating these enhancements across large production clusters, including performance optimizations, backfill pipelines, and correctness testing.
Runtian Liu, Staff Software Engineer, Storage Cassandra team, Uber
Jaydeepkumar Chovatia, Sr. Staff Engineer, Uber
Yuqi Yan, Sr. Software Engineer, Storage Cassandra team, Uber
