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Petr Zapletal Interview

Talkat Scale By the Bay 2017 · 2017-11-16..11-18· [distributed-systems]
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Focuses on cost and state at scale: uses the SMACK stack (Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, Kafka), targets systems with millions of concurrent users, and struggles with state distribution, consistency and classic cache invalidation pain. Claims cloud bills reach tens of thousands of dollars per day if full telemetry is stored, so work prioritizes cost-efficiency and right data retention. Notes functional programming helps correctness but sometimes yields performance and hiring tradeoffs, prompting pragmatic compromises.

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  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 0:50Whats it like right now
  3. 2:07Problems
  4. 3:27Functional Programming
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