~/talk

Low Latency Serving of Offline Data: Efficient, Safe, and Reliable Data...

Talkat SREcon26 Americas · 2026-03-24..03-26· [databases, distributed-systems]
slides:none on file

Preprocesses offline Iceberg data into RocksDB SST files, stage them in S3, then load those files onto dedicated serving nodes with lease-based partitioning and hash-mod routing so cutovers are near-instant and validated. Claims include 50 TB in 30 minutes (vs a week), 99% faster deploys and P99 <5 ms. Uses partition-aware sizing, NVMe vs EBS tradeoffs, CI/CD-style validation, blue/green flips and instantaneous DNS rollback to reduce cost and operational risk while enabling high replication and rapid iteration.

AI-written summary · about

  1. 0:00Introduction
  2. 1:01Serving offline data challenge
  3. 2:50Writing to mutable stores fails
  4. 5:19Freshness, cost, risk trilemma
  5. 6:01Reconstructing known data wasteful
  6. 7:45Data deployment like code
  7. 8:50Stateless API layer stateful
  8. 10:57Stateful systems operational challenges
  9. 12:00Leasing and partition-aware ownership
  10. 13:24Capacity planning with chunky instances
  11. 14:49Partition-aware sizing algorithm
  12. 16:59NVMe versus EBS cost trade-offs
  13. 18:23Routing requests to nodes
  14. 19:47Hiding complexity with abstractions
  15. 21:13CI/CD for data with blue-green
  16. 24:21Configurable rollback trade-offs
  17. 25:24Decoupling serving and loading
  18. 26:48Latency and throughput results
  19. 29:16Key lessons and benefits
  20. 31:45Q&A
~/search
type to search 6,249 conferences, 138,987 speakers and 185,172 talks
~/help
cmdctrl k
search every conference, speaker and series
/
focus the filter search
h
home
c
conferences
s
speakers
e
series
t
light / dark — the status bar button does the same
?
this help
esc
close this, then clear every filter — or just the search, while you are typing in it

Ignored while you are typing. Pages without a filter rail have no search to focus.