Realtime Advanced Analytics: Spark Streaming+Kafka, MLlib/GraphX, SQL/DataFrames

The inaugural session of the Advanced Apache Spark Meetup is starting out with a bang!

We'll present a real-world, open source, advanced analytics and machine learning pipeline using all 20 Open Source technologies listed below.

This Meetup is based on my recent "Top-5" Hadoop Summit/Data Science talk called "Spark After Dark". Spark After Dark is a mock online dating site that uses Spark, Spark SQL, DataFrames, MLlib, GraphX, Cassandra, and ElasticSearch - among many other technologies listed below - to generate quality, real-time dating recommendations for its users.

Here are the Spark After Dark slides: http://www.slideshare.net/cfregly/spark-after-dark-real-time-advanced-analytics-and-machine-learning-with-spark

All code - and the entire pipeline runtime - will be dockerized and made publicly available on Github and the Docker Hub Registry.

Technologies to be demo'd:

1. Apache Zeppelin (notebook-based development)

2. Apache Spark SQL/DataFrames (Data Analysis and ETL)

3. Apache Spark Streaming + Apache Kafka (Real-time Collection of Live Data from Interactive Demo)

4. Spark Streaming + Real-time Machine Learning (K-Means Clustering, Log/Lin Regression)

5. Apache Spark MLlib + GraphX (Generate personalized and non-personalized recommendations using various algorithms and feature engineering techniques including one hot encoding)

6. MLlib + PMML Integration (Open Standard Markup Language for Predictive Models)

7. Highly-scalable, NetflixOSS-based Machine Learning Prediction Serving Layer including Service Discover (Eureka) and Circuit Breakers (Hystrix) for Fault Tolerance

8. Zeppelin + Python-based scikit-learn Machine Learning

9. Spark + Neo4j = MazeRunner (Real-time Neo4j Graph Updates Beyond GraphX Batch Analytics)

10. Spark R (Distributed R algorithmns)

11. Apache Spark JDBC/ODBC Thrift Server (Beeline and Tableau Analytics Explorer Integration)

12. Tachyon (Off-heap storage)

13. Spark Job Server (REST API for managing Spark jobs)

14. Spark + Cassandra (NoSQL, Lambda Arch Speed Layer)

15. Spark + ElasticSearch (Distributed Search Engine)

16. Spark + Redis (Distributed, Persistent Key-Value Store Similar to Memcached)

17. Logstash (Log Agent + Collection)

18. Kibana (ElasticSearch-based Analytics Explorer UI)

19. HDFS + Parquet (Columnar Storage Format, Tight Compression, Lightning Fast Columnar Aggregations)

20. Advanced visualizations within Zeppelin using python-based matplotlib and ggplot

Reminder that we'll be Docker-izing everything for you to reuse.

Keep an eye on the Github and Docker Hub Registry links under project name "fluxcapacitor":

1. https://github.com/fluxcapacitor

2. https://registry.hub.docker.com/repos/fluxcapacitor/

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See everyone soon!