Karthik Ranganathan
CTO / Founder at YugaByte
Karthik received his BS and MS in CS from IIT-M and UT Austin. Karthik was one of the original database engineers at Facebook responsible for building distributed databases such as Cassandra and HBase. He is an Apache HBase committer, and also an early contributor to Cassandra, before it was open-sourced by Facebook. He is now a Co-Founder & the CTO at YugaByte, the company behind the open source YugaByte DB project that is bringing together NoSQL and SQL in a single globally distributed database.
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PostgreSQL continues its reign as the most widely used open source database due to its powerful feature set and rich ecosystem of tools and extensions. Join Yugabyte’s co-founder and CTO, Karthik Ranganathan, as he delivers a masterclass on building a future-proof distributed SQL database that fully “speaks” PostgreSQL and is designed specifically for cloud-native applications.
Apr 20 2023
Join Yugabyte CTO and co-founder, Karthik Ranganathan, for a quick talk on his vision for the future of Distributed SQL. As one of the original creators of Cassandra at Facebook, he’s seen massive changes in the database landscape. In this session, we’ll hear from him on three specific areas of innovations that he believes are some of the most exciting things happening in the database space, ...
Apr 20 2023
The Biography of a Modern Cloud Native Application
Told from the perspective of data
Modern cloud native applications lead exciting lives - from their birth in the cloud and dealing with massive unplanned success to surviving cloud outages and handling customers worldwide. In this talk, Yugabyte CTO Karthik Ranganathan walks through the eventful life of a successful cloud native app, as seen from the perspective of the data layer.
Apr 7 2022
Developing YugaByte DB 2.0 was but not without its fair share of technical challenges. There were times when we had to go back to the drawing board and even sift through academic research to find a better solution than what we had at hand. In this talk we’ll outline some of the hardest architectural issues we have had to address in our journey of building an open source, cloud native, high-perf...
Sep 19 2019
Designing database schemas for GDPR-compliance and security
The What and the How of Making PostgreSQL GDPR Compliant
The General Data Protection Regulation, often referred to as GDPR, came into effect on 25 May 2018 across the European Union. This regulation has implications on many global businesses, given the fines imposed if the organization is be found to be non-compliant. Making sure that the app architecture continues to ensure regulatory compliance is an on-going challenge for many businesses that requ...
Mar 20 2019
Performant multi-region Postgres using distributed data storage engine
An introduction to YugaByte DB
Building applications on PostgreSQL that require automatic data sharding and replication, ability to scale out with fault tolerance and geographic data distribution is hard. In this talk, we will look at how to achieve this using YugaByte DB, a distributed database that is a storage engine for PostgreSQL while simultaneously being fully wire-compatible with NoSQL APIs (Apache Cassandra and Redi...
Mar 21 2019
How YugaByte DB implements distributed PostgreSQL
A hands-on introduction to YugaByte DB
Building applications on PostgreSQL that require automatic data sharding and replication, fault tolerance, distributed transactions and geographic data distribution has been hard. In this 3 hour workshop, we will look at how to do this using a real-world example running on top of YugaByte DB, a distributed database that is fully wire-compatible with PostgreSQL and NoSQL APIs (Apache Cassandra a...
Oct 16 2018
Architecting distributed data for GDPR
The What and the How of Making PostgreSQL GDPR Compliant
The General Data Protection Regulation, often referred to as GDPR, came into effect on 25 May 2018 across the European Union. This regulation has implications on many global businesses, given the fines imposed if the organization is be found to be non-compliant. Making sure that the app architecture continues to ensure regulatory compliance is an on-going challenge for ...
Oct 15 2018