At BlackRock, we use Apache Cassandra in a variety of ways to help power our Aladdin investment management platform. In this talk I will give an overview of our use of Cassandra, with an emphasis on how we manage multi-tenancy in our Cassandra infrastructure. Multi-tenancy can mean different things to different people, but it often comes with added requirements related to security, isolation, and administration. I'll talk about how we operate (and make changes to) Cassandra to accommodate these needs in our platform.
Randy Fradin - BlackRock
Randy Fradin is a developer in the Aladdin Product Group's Core Systems Operations team. This team is responsible for developing the core software infrastructure in BlackRock's Aladdin platform, including scalable storage, compute, and messaging services. Previously he spent time developing the market data, risk reporting, and core trading functions in Aladdin. He has been an enthusiastic Cassandra user since 2011.
