The O’Reilly OSCON Data conference, new this year is co-located with OSCON. O'Reilly calls data a key area where open source is driving innovation. And, as open source and data experts - and people who actually do the work - OmniTI is participating. Data is collected with every mouse click and touchscreen tap, and every server interaction. OSCON Data asks: "Who’s managing the systems that support this data? What choices - good and bad - have they made? What tools are used to store and analyze this data? What are the benefits of relational vs. non-relational data storage?"
According to their website, OSCON Data organizers, "distilled hundreds of proposals to answer these issues and share the innovative solutions (and admirable hacks) by the people who build and manage data infrastructure in a world that is increasingly dependent on information as it’s currency."
Theo Schlossnagle, Founder and CEO of OmniTI speaks on Monday about Real-Time and Streaming in a session titled, Esperwhispering: get your real-time data game on. Esper is an open-source complex event processing (CEP) system. In this session he’ll give attendees an understanding of how real-time data management is different from traditional data management, how Esper works, the possibilities introduced by incorporating CEP into your software stack and how to go about integrating Esper.
Robert Treat, Database Architect and head of OmniTI's Database Group, will speak Tuesday about Database Scalability. The session, titled, Database Scalability Patterns: Sharding for Massive Growth focuses upon sharding data across multiple nodes to handle both read and write traffic, even in cases where that traffic might not be uniform. He’ll cover how to keep things running; schema changes, index builds and failover scenarios, discussing the trade-offs and constraints that various databases will impose.
The other half of the equation will be covered also: the effects on the applications that must interface with the database. Sharded architectures add complexity to any environment, and navigating those waters can be tricky. He’ll cover some of the most common hurdles that OmniTI has run across, and show attendees how to stretch the patterns based upon their needs.
Treat will give a workshop on Wednesday, as well. Titled, Pro PostgreSQL 9, this session will help attendees go beyond the basics and get the information they need to go from "just another user" to "serious PostgreSQL professional."
OSCON Data will take place July 25-27, 2011, in Portland, Oregon together with OSCON.