scale.bythebay.io: Evan Chan, Building a High-Performance Database with Scala, Akka, and Spark

ai.bythebay.io Nov 2025, Oakland, full-stack AI conference Scale By the Bay 2019 is held on November 13-15 in sunny Oakland, California, on the shores of Lake Merritt: https://scale.bythebay.io. Join us! ----- #distributedsystems #scala #akka #spark #FiloDB #cassandra Scala and its large ecosystem of libraries are increasingly being used to build highly scalable and performant data systems. In this talk, I share years of experience building high performance data systems using Scala, Akka, and Spark, plus recent experience building FiloDB, a high performance analytics database built on these technologies. How do we balance Scala and functional programming with very high performance demands? What are some tips to watch out for when building very very fast Scala code? Why build a new database for streaming applications? Why Scala and Akka makes a great foundation for building a database When to use Futures, Actors, Reactive Streams Using Akka Cluster to coordinate and implement distributed ingestion Monix and use of reactive streams Reactive/async tracing and production metrics Filo: summing integers at billions of ops per second, taking advantage of processor cache and SIMD with super fast vector operations Serialization, GC, and off-heap: how to leverage binary data structures for the win - JVM method dispatch, inlining, and writing lots of small methods Evan Chan Senior Software Engineer Facebook Message Websitevelvia.github.io Evan loves to design, build, and improve bleeding edge distributed data and backend systems using the latest in open source technologies. He…

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