Cassandra by 3 guest speakers

Our friends from Realex Payment have very kindly offered to host the first Cassandra meetup of 2016, featuring 3 guest speakers from abroad.

Agenda:

• 6:20pm - 6:50pm: Doors Open (drinks and snacks)
• 6:50pm - 7pm: Developer Hub presentation by Realex Payments
• 7pm - 7:40pm: Tim Berglund: Real-Time Analytics With Spark and Cassandra
• 7:40pm - 8:10pm: Patrick Callaghan: Cassandra/DataStax Enterprise(DSE) - tips, tricks and demos
• 8:10pm - 8:40pm: Daniel Cohen: Resilient Microservices for Finance with DataStax Enterprise & Apache Cassandra Or: how I learned to stop worrying and love Conway's Law.

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Speaker:
Tim Berglund

Bio:
Tim Berglund is a teacher, author, and technology leader with DataStax, where he serves as the Director of Training. He can frequently be found at speaking at conferences in the United States and all over the world. He is the co-presenter of various O’Reilly training videos on topics ranging from Git to Mac OS X Productivity Tips to Distributed Systems, and is the author of Gradle Beyond the Basics. He tweets as @tlberglund, blogs very occasionally at http://timberglund.com, and lives in Littleton, CO, USA with the wife of his youth and their youngest child.

Title:
Real-Time Analytics With Spark and Cassandra

Abstract:
Apache Cassandra is a leading open-source distributed database capable of amazing feats of scale, but its data model requires a bit of planning for it to perform well. Of course, the nature of ad-hoc data exploration and analysis requires that we be able to ask questions we hadn’t planned on asking—and get an answer fast. Enter Apache Spark.

Spark is a distributed computation framework optimized to work in-memory, and heavily influenced by concepts from functional programming languages. It’s exactly what a Cassandra cluster needs to deliver real-time, ad-hoc querying of operational data at scale.
In this talk, we’ll explore Spark and see how it works together with Cassandra to deliver a powerful open-source big data analytic solution.