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Shikhar Srivastava

Shikhar Srivastava is a Senior Software Engineer on the Real-time Contributions Engineering team at Bloomberg in London, where he designs and builds high-performance financial data systems. Shikhar is passionate about exploring innovative technologies to enhance real-time data processing. His career journey spans from developing machine learning models for ETA prediction at startups in India to architecting low-latency market data solutions at Bloomberg. Lately, he has been diving deep into Apache Cassandra, making use of its distributed database capabilities to tackle scalability challenges.


Company/Organisation

Bloomberg

Twitter

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LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/shikhar-srivastava-ce/


Session

06-16
14:50
20min
Zero to Scale: Telemetry pipeline with Apache Cassandra
Shikhar Srivastava, Nomin-Erdene Oyun

Picture billions of messages pouring in daily from thousands of data providers around the globe, which are then processed and published to customers. How can one design a telemetry system to capture, publish, and then index essential information about the data flowing through the system to give internal teams visibility to aid in troubleshooting?

Maschinenhaus