In a security product used to secure access to mission-critical applications, logging and auditing is incredibly important. Recently, Duo Security transitioned its authentication log storage from MySQL to Elasticsearch. In this talk, Bryan Witherspoon will talk about life before the transition, some of the reasons why we chose to make the transition, what went into the design process, the challenges we faced along the way, and the benefits we gained from the transition.
As an engineer on Duo Security's Data Engineering team, Bryan Witherspoon designs and develops solutions to improve the usability and scale of data within Duo's products and services. He occasionally tweets @uoodsq.