“Head in the Cloud” Article about Netflix in the Cloud

Check out the latest Cornell Engineering Magazine Issue for an article on how Netflix leverages the cloud! The story starts on page 10.

Some upcoming conferences that I will be speaking at …

Netflix for Mobile in the Cloud

Last week, I attended Intuit’s annual CTOF (Create The OFfering) conference in San Diego. The focus this year was on mobile best practices. I was happy to represent Netflix at this venue and learn from other companies with a foot in either mobile, the cloud, or both.

Netflix is an example of both with support on several mobile platforms (e.g. iOS, Android, Windows Mobile) and traffic served from Amazon’s Cloud.

Intuit CTOF 2011 - Netflix for Mobile in the Cloud View more presentations from Sid Anand

If you are interested in positions at Netflix, working on either the Cloud or mobile, we are hiring!

If you are just stopping by for your Calvin and Hobbes fix, enjoy!

Talks, Articles, White Papers, Videos, Patents

I thought that I would put up a list of previous and upcoming talks that I will be giving. These talks will tend to focus on my work in Distributed “Cloud” Computing and NoSQL.

Recent & Upcoming Speaking Appearances

White papers

Magazine Articles

Patents

 Videos (in reverse-chronological order)

Big Data @ LinkedIn Interview (QCON London 2012) (video + slides)

Data Infrastructure @ LinkedIn (QCon London 2012) (video + slides)

Keeping Movies Running Amid Thunderstorms (video + slides)

NoSQL @ Netflix (QCON London 2011) (video + slides)

Netflix Cloud Data Architecture (QCON London 2011) (video + slides)

NoSQL @ Netflix talk at Facebook (Feb 2011)

Structure 2011 Guru Panel (June 2011)

Cassandra : Row Cache & Memtable Q&A

Below, you will find 2 sets of questions and answers regarding Cassandra’s (now v0.7) Row Cache and Memtable. These were answered by Matthew Dennis at Riptano, a company that is actively developing both Cassandra and a management suite known as RipCord.

Questions


      Hi!

      I have a super column family. Writes either modify a column within a super column or add a super column to the super column family. I wonder how the row cache works.

      A. How do writes interact with the Row Cache entries?
      1. Do you update the row cache entry in place in order to keep it consistent with the SSTable?
      2. Do you update it when the memtable is updated or when the memtable is flushed to the SSTable?

      B. Also, is the Memtable appended to an SSTable when it is flushed or does it become its own SSTable?

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Netflix’s Transition to High-Availability Storage Systems (QCon SF 2010) Slides

I presented at QCon SF (2010) yesterday on Netlflix’s transition to high-availability storage. The slides are on slideshare.

I expect that the presentation will be available on the QCon SF site in a few days. It’s (loosely) based on my previous white paper of the same title - see this post.  

Netflix’s Transition to High-Availability Storage Systems

I just published a white paper titled Netflix’s Transition to High-Availability Storage Systems

Feel free to email me your thoughts at siddharthanand@yahoo.com

To download this paper as PDF, click on this .

About Me
A blog describing my work in building websites that millions of people visit. I'm a senior member of LinkedIn's Distributed Data Systems team. I previously held technical and leadership roles at Netflix, Etsy, eBay & Siebel Systems.
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