Dasdan's past teams built custom Kafka alternatives to handle 100 petabytes
Ali Dasdan · AI at ZoomInfo: Superpowering GTM teams | Ali Dasdan, CTO, ZoomInfo · Sep 19, 2024 · at 22:36
Ali Dasdan is the CTO of ZoomInfo. Reflecting on past technical infrastructure challenges, he compares current open-source data tool availability with earlier eras in his engineering career.
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“In the past, when we were doing data platform, there was no Kafka, for example, we created a Kafka-like system ourselves, but we are lucky that, yeah, we created an HBase, sort of HHive-like system ourselves with hundred petabytes of size of data, right?”
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