Presented By
O’Reilly + Cloudera
Make Data Work
29 April–2 May 2019
London, UK
Elliot West

Elliot West
Principal Engineer, Hotels.com

Website | @teabot

Elliot West is a principal engineer at Hotels.com in London, where he designs tooling and platforms in the big data space. Previously, Elliot worked on Last.fm’s data team, developing services for managing large volumes of music metadata.

Sessions

12:05–12:45 Thursday, 2 May 2019
Herding elephants: Seamless data access in a multicluster clouds
Data Engineering and Architecture
 Location: S11 B
Secondary topics:  AI and Data technologies in the cloud, Data Platforms
Pradeep Bhadani (Hotels.com), Elliot West (Hotels.com)
Average rating: ****.
(4.17, 6 ratings)
Travel platform Expedia Group likes to give its data teams flexibility and autonomy to work with different technologies. However, this approach generates challenges that cannot be solved by existing tools. Pradeep Bhadani and Elliot West explain how the company built a unified virtual data lake on top of its many heterogeneous and distributed data platforms. Read more.
14:05–14:45 Thursday, 2 May 2019
Mutant tests too: The SQL
Data Engineering and Architecture
 Location: S11 A
Elliot West (Hotels.com), Jaydene Green (Hotels.com)
Average rating: ***..
(3.00, 3 ratings)
Elliot West and Jay Green share approaches for applying software engineering best practices to SQL-based data applications to improve maintainability and data quality. Using open source tools, Elliot and Jay show how to build effective test suites for Apache Hive code bases and offer an overview of Mutant Swarm, a tool to identify weaknesses in tests and to measure SQL code coverage. Read more.