Cassandra in Docker talk was given at London Docker Meetup in May 2019. Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TshTqk2J2M&t=7s

1. Raghavendra D Prabhu
rprabhu@yelp.com
@randomsurfer
London Docker Meetup
16 May
Cassandra in Docker at Yelp
Opportunities and Challenges

2. Yelp’s Mission
Connecting people with great
local businesses.

3. OVERVIEW

4. ● About Cassandra
● Cassandra at Yelp
● Docker at Yelp
● Opportunities in Dockerization
● Challenges
● Conclusion
Overview

6. ● Distributed wide-column NoSQL datastore
● Written in Java
● Multi data center
● Tunable consistency
● Write-friendly: LSM than B-tree
● Cloud-aware: gossip, failure detection, snitching, handoffs
Cassandra

7. ● Both primary and derived data
● Deployed on AWS EC2: m5.*
● EBS for storage
● Automated schema management
● Backups into S3
● Custom node discovery with Smartstack
● Managed with Taskerman
Cassandra @

8. Yelp Cassandra
@ 10000 ft

9. ● Yelp PaaSTA: Containers on Mesos
● Few thousand microservices deployed and growing
○ Our website runs on this!
● Hundreds of deployments every day
● Why PaaSTA:
○ Clusterman
○ Spot fleet
● Kubernetes for stateful services
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10. OPPORTUNITIES

11. Lifecycle Management

12. Safe Deployment

13. Maintenance

14. Auto/Scaling

15. Co$t

16. Security

17. Agile Infra

18. CHALLENGES

19. Noisy Neighbor

20. Cold Cache

21. Java Runtime

22. Configuration Management

23. Observability

24. Conclusion

25. www.yelp.com/careers/
We're Hiring!

26. ● Taskerman: A Distributed Cluster Task Manager
● How Yelp Autoscales Mesos + Marathon on AWS Spot Fleet
● Getting the Most Out of Your Mesos
● Autoscaling Mesos Clusters with Clusterman
Related talks

27. Q & A

28. ● Apache cassandra logo
● https://www.yelp.com/brand for Yelp burst logo
● https://thenounproject.com/
● https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1328995
Credits

29. @YelpEngineering
fb.com/YelpEngineers
engineeringblog.yelp.com
github.com/yelp