Presented By
O’Reilly + Cloudera
Make Data Work
March 25-28, 2019
San Francisco, CA
Lars Volker

Lars Volker
Software Engineer, Cloudera

Lars Volker is a software engineer at Cloudera. He has worked on various parts of Apache Impala, including crash handling, its Parquet scanners, and scan range scheduling. Most recently, he worked on integrating Kudu’s RPC framework into Impala. Previously, he worked on various databases at SAP.

Sessions

11:50am–12:30pm Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Accelerating analytical antelopes: Integrating Apache Kudu's RPC into Apache Impala
Data Engineering & Architecture
 Location: 2004
Secondary topics:  Streaming, realtime analytics, and IoT
Lars Volker (Cloudera), Michael Ho (Cloudera)
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 6 ratings)
In recent years, Apache Impala has been deployed to clusters that are large enough to hit architectural limitations in the stack. Lars Volker and Michael Ho cover the efforts to address the scalability limitations in the now legacy Thrift RPC framework by using Apache Kudu's RPC, which was built from the ground up to support asynchronous communication, multiplexed connections, TLS, and Kerberos. Read more.