What the Spark!? Intro and Use Cases

Join us for an exciting meet up guaranteed to “spark” your interest in the lightning-fast Apache Spark framework!

In this presentation, Glassbeam Principal Architect Mohammad Guller, will introduce Spark, and discuss why people are replacing Hadoop MapReduce with Spark for batch and stream processing jobs.

He will discuss the areas where Spark really shines and cover some real-world Spark scenarios. In addition, he will review some misconceptions about Spark.

In case you’re not familiar with Spark….

Spark is a cluster-computing framework for processing a large amount of data. It has taken the big data world by fire. It has become one of the most active open-source projects out there. All major Hadoop distributors including Cloudera, Hortonworks, and MapR include Spark in their distributions.

Don’t miss this opportunity to get practical tips from the scaling trenches on leveraging this powerful tool!

Speaker:

Mohammed Guller is a Principal Architect at Glassbeam, a machine data analytics company. He leads the development of big data and machine learning products at Glassbeam. Prior to joining Glassbeam, he dabbled with his own startup, TrustRecs.com, which provided a social-network based recommendation platform. Mohammed is a frequent speaker at big data related conferences.