Richard Low
Richard is a scientist, software engineer and musician, working for Acunu as an algorithms developer.
Talks I've Given
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Apache Cassandra: a tunably consistent, highly-availble, distributed database
Featuring Richard Low
Apache Cassandra is a next generation database originally conceived at Facebook. In this talk, Dr Richard Low will cover the features unique to Cassandra and explain how it achieves things such as tuneable consistency, write-optimisation, and high availability.
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Real-time Cassandra
Featuring Richard Low
In this talk, I'll explain what real-time means from a database technology point of view. Then I'll talk about how Apache Cassandra is ideally suited for real-time applications. I'll cover how fast range queries and counters power Cassandra's real-time capabilities, and how Acunu...
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Cassandra failure modes
Featuring Richard Low
In this In The Brain session, Richard Low looks at Cassandra more closely, examining how it deals with various failure modes.
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What We've Learned from Cassandra Performance Testing
Featuring Richard Low
In this talk, Richard Low from Acunu talks about what we've learned from Cassandra performance testing show the effect of heavy write loads on Cassandra, in particular on range queries, and explain how Acunu improves on vanilla Cassandra performance and predictability.
cassandra performance-testing nosql
