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Etsy's Big Data Cloud Migration

Published: Aug. 14, 2019, 2 p.m.

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DESCRIPTION: Aaron and Brian talk with Kevin McHale (Senior Staff Engineer at Etsy) about the migration of their Big Data / Data Science platform from on-premises to Google Cloud, the business drivers for the migration, and the lessons the team has learned throughout the multi-year process.

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Topic 1 - Welcome to the show. Before we dive into your work at Etsy, tell us a little bit about your background prior to Etsy - you\\u2019re pretty good at math.\\xa0

Topic 2 -\\xa0 You\\u2019ve been working on two very interesting projects at Etsy - both building/evolving the data platform, and helping to manage the migration to Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Let\\u2019s start by talking about the Etsy data platform.

Topic 3 - What have been some of the business drivers that are pushing the data platform to collect more information, to become more cloud-native, and to better enable data pipelines?\\xa0

Topic 4 - At some point in 2017-18, Etsy decided to migrate some of the platforms to Google Cloud. Tell us about that decision-process, and how the migration has been going. What have been some of the lessons learned?\\xa0

Topic 5 -\\xa0 How does working with Google Cloud (or just being in the public cloud) help accelerate the work that you\\u2019re doing on evolving the Etsy data platform?\\xa0

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