
Speaker: Alex Seaton
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Staff Engineer @ArcticDB, Previously Working on Quant Trading Systems @Man Group
Alex Seaton is an engineer working on ArcticDB at Man Group. ArcticDB is a high-performance dataframe database that is optimised for timeseries data, data-science workflows and scales to petabytes of data and thousands of simultaneous users. At ArcticDB his focus has been on data replication and tick streaming infrastructure. Before joining ArcticDB, Alex built trade execution and market data systems.
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Session
How to Build a Database Without a Server
Modern data analytics workflows rely on scaling out to huge numbers of users and compute nodes. Managing database installations to handle this scale can be unsustainably complex and expensive.