Speaker: Paige Elinson
Staff Software Engineer @Datadog
Paige is a Staff Software Engineer at Datadog and the technical lead for Reference Tables, a product that enables customers to enrich their observability data with their own business context. Her work focuses on building large-scale distributed data platforms that unlock new customer-facing capabilities without sacrificing data correctness, reliability, or operational simplicity. Previously, she was a Staff Software Engineer at Cruise and Google Street View. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvey Mudd College. Outside of work, she enjoys rock climbing, skiing, and trail running near her home in Colorado.
Session
One Does Not Simply Add Synchronous Writes - Bridging Batch and Real Time with Apache Iceberg
What happens when a batch ingestion platform needs to behave like an operational database? Datadog’s Reference Tables product was designed for asynchronous uploads of large datasets, but customers increasingly needed synchronous row-level edits, without sacrificing batch scale.