February Presentation Night

Lighting Talks

Nick Chammas: A common pitfall when processing GZipped files with Spark

Feature Talks

Yana Kadiyska: First steps with Spark

Heard of Spark but haven’t tried it out yet? Come and get started!

We’ll deploy a standalone cluster, go through the UI, basic options, figuring out if your cluster is properly connected.

We’ll look at logs, talk about debugging, running more than one application at a time and steps to help yourself/gather relevant information to get help on the user list.

Nick Chammas: Contributing to Spark

How do you contribute to Spark?

How do you create a good pull request that is likely to be merged?

What are the hot areas of contribution in Spark, and where does the project need some help?
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