Keynote

9:00AM - 9:45AM, UTC+8 , January 16

Pulsar: What we Learned from Building a Modern Messaging and Streaming System for Container and Cloud

Ten years ago, the Linkedin team built Kafka a streaming system around the concept of “log” by taking advantage of inexpensive storage disks. Since then the infrastructure has evolved from virtual machines to containers and cloud, the storage and networking performance and cost have dramatically improved as well. Over this same decade, it became essential for enterprises to react in real-time to the ever increasing data volume, velocity and variety. However as organizations moved to a streaming-first, event-driven infrastructure, they quickly found themselves drowning in the complexity of how to actually operationalize Kafka and other similar messaging systems at scale. Pulsar was designed with the mission to build a unified messaging and streaming platform to unify historical and real-time data, by leveraging the modern cloud-native infrastructure with a focus on simplifying developer API and operations.
In this talk, we will discuss what we have learned from building Pulsar for container and cloud.

Speaker

Sijie Guo

Co-founder and CEO, StreamNative

Sijie Guo is the co-founder and CEO of StreamNative. StreamNative is a real-time data infrastructure startup offering a cloud-native event streaming platform powered by Apache Pulsar for the enterprises. Before StreamNative, he co-founded Streamlio. Before Streamlio, he worked for Twitter as the tech lead for the messaging infrastructure group, where he co-created DistributedLog and Twitter EventBus. Before Twitter, he worked on the push notification infrastructure at Yahoo!. He is also the VP of Apache BookKeeper and PMC member of Apache Pulsar.