Blackbird's Podcast: Recent Episodes
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In April, we welcomed Eddie Garcia, the VP of Information Security and ex-Architect at Gazzang.com to join us for a chat about Cassandra. In this talk, he starts the discussion with the AWS configurations he's seen perform best in real life for running Cassandra. There are a lot of choices you can make when spinning up AMIs for any cluster, and he shares the OS and recommended hardware choices. Eddie also covers file system tuning, stress testing in AWS, and reading and writing encrypted vs. unencrypted data, running on both Elastic Block Storage (EBS) and Solid State Disk (SSD) storage.
For a link to Eddie's deck and contact info, click here: http://www.slideshare.net/palominodb/performance-tuning-cassandra-aws
Check our next TechTalk on May 22nd - Analytics in Cassandra + Hadoop: http://www.meetup.com/Blackbird-IO-San-Francisco/events/177936672/
This is a recording from PerconaLive 2014 where Laine Campbell, CEO of Blackbird, presented on Using AWS for MySQL at Scale.
Slides can be found here: http://www.slideshare.net/palominodb/percona-live-2014-scaling-mysql-in-aws
Laine explains the options for running MySQL at high volumes at Amazon Web Services, exploring options around database as a service, hosted instances/storages and all appropriate availability, performance and provisioning considerations using real-world examples from Call of Duty, Obama for America and many more. Laine will show how to build highly available, manageable and performant MySQL environments that scale in AWS—how to maintain then, grow them and deal with failure. Some of the specific topics covered are:
- Overview of RDS and EC2 – pros, cons and usage patterns/antipatterns.
- Implementation choices in both offerings: instance sizing, ephemeral SSDs, EBS, provisioned IOPS and advanced techniques (RAID, mixed storage environments, etc…)
- Leveraging regions and availability zones for availability, business continuity and disaster recovery.
- Scaling patterns including read/write splitting, read distribution, functional dataset partitioning and horizontal dataset partitioning (aka sharding)
- Common failure modes – AZ and Region failures, EBS corruption, EBS performance inconsistencies and more.
- Managing and mitigating cost with various instance and storage options
This is a live recording from our March 20th TechTalks series hosted by Jay Edwards in our San Francisco offices, featuring Tal Klein (@VirtualTal) from Adallom speaking about "Closing the Cloud Security Gap".
For more info about upcoming talks and events check: http://blackbird.io/ https://twitter.com/BlackbirdIO