Making Abstract Algebra Count in the World of Event Streaming ft. Sam Ritchie

During his time at Twitter, Sam Ritchie (Staff Research Engineer, Google) led the development of Summingbird, a project that helped Twitter ingest and process massive amounts of data. It relieved some key pain points, saving developers at Twitter from doing work twice, as was a natural consequence of the then-current Lambda Architecture. In this episode, Sam dives teaches us some abstract algebra and explains how it has informed his attempts to make stream processing programs easy to write in a more general way.

EPISODE LINKS

• Check out Summingbird
• Join the Confluent Community Slack
• Learn about Kafka at Confluent Developer