Topic of Presentation: Data scalability. Why you should care?

Language: English

Tomasz Mikołajczyk CTO at GridwiseTech is a senior software engineer with wide and deep knowledge in software development process and quality management. Tomasz oversees GridwiseTech projects for corporate customers, answering their needs for highly scalable, distributed architectures. Prior to joining GridwiseTech, Tomasz spent years in technologically demanding industries, working with high-performance verification, personally managing projects and designing solutions for corporations in Europe and Asia.

Abstract: Database scalability is a nontrivial problem for all services deriving business from the Internet traffic. While it is relatively easy to load-balance web traffic using hardware and software methods, it is much less trivial to design and build a database serving large loads of concurrent requests, with peak loads dynamically fluctuating in time. GridwiseTech specializes in scalability of transactional systems. In this presentation we will introduce a methodic approach to building scalable databases, including techniques such as: optimization, hardware extensions, caching, sharding, in-memory databases, and more.