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Scaling Chartbeat from 8 Million Open Browsers to Realtime Analytics and Optimization
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Summary
Wesley Chow presents Chartbeat's real-time analytics platform and how able to handle the requests in a cost efficient manner using a custom written analytics engine in C and Lua. He also talks about numerical problems that arise from scale, and some algorithmic challenges and solutions encountered while measuring tens of billions of engaged minutes every month.
Bio
Wesley Chow has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from UC Berkeley. He spent eight years building technical infrastructure for high frequency trading shops, and co-founded Athena Capital Research. He's now at Chartbeat serving out his term as CTO.
About the conference
Software is Changing the World. QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. A practitioner-driven conference, QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams.
Oct 26, 2014