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Make Data Work
Oct 15–17, 2014 • New York, NY
Fangjin Yang

Fangjin Yang
CEO, Imply

Fangjin is one of the first developers to Metamarkets and the Druid project. He mainly works on core infrastructure development. Fangjin comes to Metamarkets from Cisco where he developed diagnostic algorithms for various routers and switches. He holds a BASc in Electrical Engineering and a MASc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Sessions

1:45pm–2:25pm Thursday, 10/16/2014
Stories from the Trenches: The Challenges of Building an Analytics Stack
Hadoop & Beyond
 Location: 1 E20/1 E21
Tags: web_business
Fangjin Yang (Imply), Xavier Léauté (Confluent)
Average rating: ***..
(3.17, 6 ratings)
Organizations often showcase the virtues of their data platforms, but rarely share the challenges and decisions faced along the way. Our session describes how we architected our analytics stack around Druid, an open source distributed data store, and how we overcame the challenges around scaling the system, balancing features with cost, and making performance consistent. Read more.
4:15pm–4:55pm Thursday, 10/16/2014
Office Hour with Fangjin Yang and Xavier Léauté (Metamarkets)
Office Hour
 Location: Table C
Fangjin Yang (Imply), Xavier Léauté (Confluent)
Fangiin and Xavier are happy to discuss Druid and all big data related miscellany, including architecting systems for efficiency and cost in multi-tenant environments, common tradeoffs in system design, and Druid use cases and scaling without incurring downtime. Read more.