Dok Talks #120 - A Gentle Introduction to Building Data Intensive Applications // Joe Karlsson

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ABSTRACT OF THE TALK

We all know that data intensive applications have had explosive growth in the past decade. Data now drives significant portions of our lives, from making sense of IoT swarm data to detecting fraudulent transactions at your bank. As software developers, we all have unprecedented opportunities to build data applications that generate value from these massive datasets.

Join Bart Farrell and Joe Karlsson for this talk as we discuss gotchas and best practices of building deploying and scaling data intensive apps.

KEY TAKE-AWAYS FROM THE TALK

Build a data-intensive application from scratch using only SQL.
We will discuss gotchas and best practices of building deploying and scaling a key-value store.

BIO

Joe Karlsson (He/They) is a Database Engineer turned Developer Advocate (and massive data nerd) currently working at SingleStore. He empowers developers to think creatively when building applications with a massive amount of data, through demos, blogs, videos, or whatever else developers need. Joe's career has taken him from building out database best practices and demos for MongoDB, architecting and building one largest eCommerce websites in North America at Best Buy, and teaching at one of the most highly-rated software development boot camps on Earth. Joe is also a TEDx Speaker, film buff, and avid [TikToker]