Laying down the SMACK on your data pipelines

Hey everyone,

For our May meetup, we'll be hearing from Patrick McFadin, from DataStax. Patrick will be talking to us about the SMACK stack (Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, Kafka) and how it can be utilized within your organization. As always DataStax will be supplying the drinks and pizza. Hope to see you there!

About the talk:

You’ve heard all of the hype, but how can SMACK work for you? You will learn how to create a reactive, scaling, resilient and performant data processing powerhouse. We will go through the basics of Akka, Kafka and Mesos and then deep dive into putting them together in an end2end (and back again) distrubuted transaction. Distributed transactions mean producers waiting for one or more of consumers to respond. On the backend, you will see how Apache Cassandra and Spark can be combined to add the incredibly scaling storage and data analysis needed for fast data pipelines. With these technologies as a foundation, you have the assurance that scale is never a problem and uptime is default.

About Patrick McFadin:

Patrick McFadin is regarded as one of the foremost experts of Apache Cassandra and data modeling techniques. As the Chief Evangelist for Apache Cassandra and consultant for DataStax, he has helped build some of the largest deployments in the world. Previous to DataStax, he was Chief Architect at Hobsons, an education services company. There, he spoke often on Web Application design and performance.

Schedule:

6:30-7:00 - Pizza and drinks

7:00-8:00 - Laying down the SMACK on your data pipelines

8:00-8:30 - Q & A

Parking

Capital factory will provide parking validation tickets that will lower the price for parking at the Omni Hotel to 5 dollars. Otherwise, there is street parking in the area as well as multiple for pay lots close by.