Finn.no: Apache Cassandra (and Hadoop) Case Studies from FINN.no

Speaker: Mick Semb Wever, Programmer at Finn.no FINN.no is the leading classifieds website in Norway and the country's busiest website. This session will go through various product development where Cassandra has shown to be the best choice. Focusing on the primary use case: a tracking solution that collects raw time-series data in C* and aggregates it in near-real-time using Hadoop into various new datasets from advert-centric statistics to user-centric behavioural analysis. Mick will cover the final technical design chosen after three years of development iterations, touching on technologies: scribe, thrift, kafka, hadoop, pig, mahout; the hurdles faced along the way, integration improvements done between Cassandra and Hadoop, and the throughput and performance of today's systems.