AWS User Group Meetup

This week, Yext hosted the NYC AWS User Group to discuss techniques enabling migration applications to AWS. Education technology company Knewton, had their own unique perspective on the topic and joined in on the presentation.

We started the evening with drinks and networking. One of the guests was overheard joking about our idea of "light refreshments." At Yext, there is never a shortage of good eats.

Speakers included Yext's CTO, Sean MacIsaac and Knewton's Director of Platform, Trevor Smith.

Sean MacIsaac, kicked off the discussion with a presentation on how Yext Engineering uses MySQL replication with RDS to enable Yext's migration to AWS.

Trevor Smith's presentation on their migration from an in-house graph DB to Cassandra-backed Titan, raised a lot of questions.

Trevor's key advice for the evening, "spend a lot of time understanding your problem."