As Chief Architect and VP of Product Development, Eben Hewitt is responsible for the technology strategy at Sabre, a $6B global software product company. Prior to that he served for several years as CTO at one of the world's largest hotel companies. He has led teams of hundreds across all areas of technology and product development. He works with C-level executives to create & communicate the technology vision, strategy, and architecture, working at the intersection of technology, strategy, business & product development. He is the author Cassandra: The Definitive Guide (two editions, translated into Chinese), and has authored books on architecture, SOA, Java, and other programming languages. He served as a series editor at Prentice Hall. He has spoken at O'Reilly's Software Architecture and Web 2.0 conferences, Amazon re:Invent, Oracle headquarters, Oracle OpenWorld, JavaOne, Tata Institute in Banglaore, and others. He has won awards from Oracle and VMWare for his distribution integration with Google Inc. Eben's technology & strategy experience spans 20 years in software product companies, travel, retail, media, publishing, government, internet service providers, venture capital & business development.