August CHUG Event: Overview of the upcoming Apache Atlas project

Dave Callahan (2C data) is teaming up with Hortonworks for this month's presentation on the upcoming Apache Atlas, a part of the Data Governance Initiative.

Discussion Topic:

As enterprises across all major industries deploy Hadoop into corporate data and processing environments, a common approach to working with metadata and data governance becomes a necessity. Apache Atlas was created by a consortium of enterprises to meet this need. Atlas enhances governance capabilities in Hadoop for both prescriptive and forensic models enriched by taxonomical metadata. Atlas, at its core, is designed to exchange metadata with other tools and processes within and outside of the Hadoop stack. Atlas enables platform-agnostic governance controls that effectively address enterprise compliance requirements.

Speaker's bio:

Dave Callaghan is a Modern Data Innovator at 2C Data.

He is responsible for helping companies successfully implement and realize measurable value from their Big Data, Fast Data and NoSQL implementations.

On the Big Data batch process side, he's certified in and worked extensively with, and occasionally extend, the entire Hadoop ecosystem as well as Cassandra.

On the Fast Data streaming side, he's implemented solutions using Storm, Spark and Kafka streaming with both Java and Scala

He is currently focused on working with and contributing to the new data governance initiative platform applications like Falcon and Ranger and ultimately Apache Atlas.

He also brings modest data science skills, mostly using R, Weka and Watson.