data.bythebay.io: Yungjin Xu, Building domain specific databases with a distributed commit log

Smyte is building a platform to analyze all of the traffic running through busy consumer websites and mobile apps. In this talk I'm going to describe our solution to one tricky problem — counting. Specifically: accurately counting ludicrous amounts of events over sliding windows, while keeping costs as low as possible. Oh, and… lets get something working in hour or two and improve it later.

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