Deep dive into Apache Cassandra with an intro to Apache Spark integration

Note: The meeting is at the Greenheys Building on Pencroft Way. The post code above is correct. There is plenty of free car parking.

Agenda

6.30pm Networking over a beer & pizza

7.00pm Welcome

7.05pm A deep dive into Apache Cassandra with an introduction to Apache Spark integration

By: Christopher Batey - Software Engineer at Datastax

After a very brief introduction to Apache Cassandra then we'll head into the details. We're going to cover:

• Write path: How Cassandra keeps your data safe

• Read path: How Cassandra can keep your queries fast

• Compaction

• Replication

We'll then go into the exciting world of Apache Spark integration, and learn how you can turn your operational datastore into an analytics platform. Apache Spark has taken the Hadoop world by storm (no pun intended!) recently, and is widely seen as the replacement to Hadoop Map Reduce. Apache Spark coupled with Cassandra are perfect allies, Cassandra does the distributed data storage, Spark does the distributed computation.

8.30 - 9.00pm Networking

Presenter's Biography

Christopher Batey (@chbatey) is a Software Engineer by trade and is currently employed by DataStax a Technical Evangelist for Apache Cassandra, previously he was Senior Software Engineer at BSkyB where he spent his time designing and developing their next generation platform that backs Sky Go, Now TV etc. He is a keen blogger, tweeter and open source advocate.