Paper Title: Designing Granular Lifecycle Management for the Cloud

Paper Abstract: Cloud vendors expose APIs and SDK to specify lifecycle management policies for objects stored in a bucket. However, a lot of applications write different types of objects in the same bucket. Cloud vendors do not have necessary APIs to provide granular control for lifecycle management at the object level. In this talk, I would like to discuss a software design to allow applications to tag objects and specify policies for managing lifecycle transitions of the object. This will include several software components such as Tagging Module, a Policy Engine, a Lifecycle management process, and Data Movers. Using these techniques, organizations such as Netflix and Box can save millions of dollars by actively moving the data into appropriate tiers of storage.

Paper Author: Tejas Chopra, Sr. Software Engineer, Netflix

Author Bio: Tejas Chopra is a Sr. Software Engineer at Netflix, where he works on the Storage infrastructure for Netflix Studios. He is a TedX and an international keynote speaker with talks on Blockchain, Storage, Web3.0, Cloud computing, and Engineering culture. He has over a decade of experience working on distributed systems, and has a Masters in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.