Building an Event-oriented Data Platform

While we frequently talk about how to build interesting products on top of machine and event data, the reality is that collecting, organizing, providing access to, and managing this data is where most people get stuck. In this session, we’ll follow the flow of data through an end to end system built to handle tens of terabytes per day of event-oriented data, providing real time streaming, in-memory, SQL, and batch access to this data. We’ll go into detail on how open source systems such as Hadoop, Kafka, Solr, and Impala/Hive are actually stitched together; describe how and where to perform data transformation and aggregation; provide a simple and pragmatic way of managing event metadata; and talk about how applications built on top of this platform get access to data and extend its functionality. This session is especially recommended for data infrastructure engineers and architects planning, building, or maintaining similar systems.