Manhattan is Twitter’s primary distributed key-value store. This talk will cover the general architecture of the storage system, along with the motivations, tradeoffs and benefits of highly-available eventual consistency. You will learn about some of the challenges presented by the proliferation of use cases in a multitenant environment. We will then discuss the practicalities and surprises in evolving an eventually consistent database to provide strongly consistent capabilities.
Boaz Avital (@bx) is the tech lead for Core Storage and one of the original engineers on the Manhattan team at Twitter. His work at Twitter has been primarily focused around building a distributed database from the ground up to support one of the highest traffic websites on the internet.
