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Tuesday, June 11 • 10:50am - 11:50am
The Perils and Triumphs of using Cassandra at a .NET/Microsoft Shop

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NativeX (formerly W3i) recently transitioned a large portion of their backend infrastructure from Microsoft SQL Server to Apache Cassandra. Today, its Cassandra cluster backs its mobile advertising network supporting over 10 million daily active users that produce over 10,000 transactions per second with an average database request latency of under 2 milliseconds. Come hear our story about how we were successful at getting our .NET web apps to reliably connect to Cassandra. Come learn about FluentCassandra, Snowflake, Hector, and IKVM. It's a story of struggle and perseverance, where everyone lives happily ever after.

Speakers
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Derek Bromenshenkel

Infrastructure Architect, NativeX
Derek Bromenshenkel is an Infrastructure Architect at NativeX with over 6 years of software development experience. Recently he's helped NativeX's Mobile Business become more scalable and resilient by utilizing Cassandra for high volume data persistence.
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Jeff Smoley

Infrastructure Architect, NativeX
Jeff Smoley is an Infrastructure Architect at NativeX with over 13 years of software development experience ranging from VB6 desktop apps to high transaction ASP .Net/WCF web applications. His focus is on building resilient and maintainable applications. Most recently he's helped... Read More →


Tuesday June 11, 2013 10:50am - 11:50am PDT
Fleet Room - Building D Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA