Accelerating ScaleFrom Startups to Enterprise

Peter Bakas

DataStax

Hello!I am Peter BakasVP, Cloud Platform EngineeringDataStax Managed Cloud @peter_bakas

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DataStax Data Management for Cloud Applications

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DataStax Announces its Acquisition

of DataSCALe on November 15,

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Datascale is a provider of cloud-based Management for Data Infrastructure

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2.Product

1.Culture

3.Technology

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1.Culture

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Freedom &

Responsibility

“It may well be the

most important

document to ever

come out of Silicon

Valley”

-Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook

COO

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Every Company is Different

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× Team× Communication× Data Driven

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× Attitude, Aptitude, Abilities× High Performance× The Reasonable Person Principle

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× Open, direct, honest× Listen instead of reacting× More context, less control

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× Move from assumptions× Use data, don’t watch data × Provide better context

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2.Product

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“We didn’t do anything

wrong, but somehow

we lost...”

-Stephen Elop, Nokia CEO

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If you don’t Change,

you will be eliminated

from the competition

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Let Reusability drive new

Value

3.Technology

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Time Based Economy

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× We have always done it this way× We are different× We can do it better

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× Auto Scaling× Self Service × Self Healing

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× Too many projects× Need to migrate× Moved on× What took so long?

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× Central Teams× SaaS Providers× Cloud Providers

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1,000,000,000,00

0Events/Day

99.999%Events Delivered/Day

12,500,000,000Events/Sec (Peak)

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1.4PB/Day (35GB/Sec Peak)Whoa! That’s a big number.

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EveryDay

A true Story!

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Keystone went Live 10/27/2015

2 days Later...

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Place your screenshot here80% “Loss”

over next 6

hours

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“We don’t celebrate

failure in Silicon valley.

We celebrate

learning.”

-Reid Hoffman, Linkedin

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× There are times when things go wrong and there is no turning back

× Reduce Complexity× Minimize blast radius× Find a way to start over fresh

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Place your screenshot hereSTSIShort Term Stand in

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Place your screenshot hereFailover

Time is of the Essence - Failover in less than 5 mins

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Questions???

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× Full Automation× Self Healing× Expect and Exercise Failure

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THAN

KS!You can find me at @peter_bakas

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