Speed vs Capacity: Designing Data Systems for Real-Time Scale

👋 Hello friends,

We hope you and your loved ones are staying safe. Due to the current circumstances, we have chosen to postpone our upcoming meetup, co-hosted by Start.io and Contentsquare. Your safety remains our top priority. We will share a new date as soon as it’s determined, and we look forward to welcoming you back when it’s safe to do so. Thank you for your understanding, and stay safe! 💖

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Join Aerospike, Start.io, and Contentsquare for an engaging evening filled with technical talks and insightful peer discussions focusing on the complex trade-offs involved in operating modern real-time systems at scale. Together, we will navigate the challenges of tail latency, throughput predictability, scalability, and cost efficiency.

This session is built on practical experiences, not just theory - covering everything from overcoming RAM limitations to migrating high-throughput workloads from Redis to Aerospike, and structuring architectures to optimize cloud costs. We'll delve into pitfalls faced when migrating real-time systems from AWS to GCP, discuss VPC architecture variations, traffic steering differences, and analyze NVMe and local SSD behaviors. Understanding why conventional operational playbooks often fall short across different cloud environments will be key!

Who Should Attend?

This event targets engineers and architects managing latency-sensitive, large-scale systems—where every millisecond counts, growth is relentless, and infrastructure decisions heavily influence performance, reliability, and costs.

Agenda:

🕠 17:30 – 18:00 - Welcome drinks & networking
🕕 18:00 – 18:10 - Opening Remarks
Topic: Speed vs Capacity: Designing Data Systems for Real-Time Scale
Speaker: Oshrat Ben-Avi Zabludovitz, Israel Country Manager, Aerospike

🕕 18:10 – 18:30 - Scaling Past RAM: Architectural Lessons from Our Redis-to-Aerospike Migration
Speaker: Ilan Huchansky, Data Platform Team Leader, Start.io
Join us as we discuss our journey transitioning from a Redis-based architecture to a robust NoSQL solution—ensuring unwavering performance standards  even during high-traffic moments!

🕕 18:30 – 18:50 - Boosting Cost Efficiency with Cost-Aware Architecture
Speaker: Doron Hoffman, Chief Architect, Contentsquare
Discover the crucial role of designing systems with cost consciousness. We’ll illustrate the transition from traditional methods to a more cost-aware approach, enhancing scalability while managing expenses effectively.

🕕 18:50 – 19:10 - The Latency Leap: Hard Lessons in Migrating Real-Time Systems from AWS to GCP
Speaker: David Gerchikov, Senior Software Engineer, Aerospike
Explore the intricacies of migrating high-throughput systems between cloud platforms, identifying key challenges and integrate solutions to preserve performance and reliability.

🕖 19:10 – 20:30 - Drinks & networking

📍 Location: Brain Embassy TLV
🔗 Register Here