A deep dive into Apache Cassandra & an introduction to Apache Spark/Cassandra

Happy New Year! To start 2015 we have a great presentation from Christopher Batey this month.

Schedule

18:30 – Reception (with drinks and snacks)
19:00 – A deep dive into Apache Cassandra and an introduction to Apache Spark/Cassandra integration
19:45 - Q&A
20:00 – Networking

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Christopher Batey

Christopher Batey (@chbatey) is a Software Engineer by trade and is currently employed by DataStax as 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 ( http://christopher-batey.blogspot.co.uk/ ), tweeter and open source advocate.

Title
A deep dive into Apache Cassandra and an introduction to Apache Spark/Cassandra integration

Abstract
After a very brief introduction to Apache Cassandra 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 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!), 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.

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