The first panel is about databases in this Cloud era. The panel is moderated by Jason Hoffman from Joyent. Panelists include Tasso Argyros of Aster Data Systems, Jeff Hammerbacher from Cloudera, Doug Judd from Zvents, Avinash Lakshman from Facebook and Geir Magnusson Jr. from Gilt Groupe. Some of the takeaways from the panel include
- RDBMS are dumb about disks
- People who use databases should rethink how they use databases
- Ease of use is important. Adding capacity should be about adding commodity boxes
- Scalability means scale out and scale in. Systems should be able to support it
- Having the right software for the cloud is important
- Facebook’s largest cluster has 160 nodes
- Before putting your data inside these systems, think if it is ok to do it
- The bottleneck for distributed applications is the network
- Use software in a smart way to overcome the network bottleneck
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