10th Spark London Meetup

A real treat this month - we have Chris Fregly over from the San Francisco. He'll be giving us two talks: a deep dive into new performance optimisations in Spark and and talk on advanced analytics using Spark.

Thanks to our Sponsor: SoftLayer.

Chris Fregly is a Principal Data Solutions Engineer for the IBM Spark Technology Center, Apache Spark Contributor, Netflix Open Source Committer - as well as the Organizer of the San Francisco-based Advanced Apache Spark Meetup.
Formerly, Chris was a Data Solutions and Platform Engineer at Databricks and Netflix.

Deep Dive: "Project Tungsten" - Spark's Largest Performance Optimizations to Date

Deep dive into the CPU and Memory optimizations implemented as part of Project Tungsten. We'll discuss JVM code generation, CPU-cache locality, and self-managed (Unsafe) garbage collection."

Spark After Dark: Real time Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning with Spark

The audience will participate in a live, interactive demo that generates high-quality recommendations using the latest Spark-Cassandra and Spark-ElasticSearch connectors for real time, approximate, and advanced analytics including machine learning, graph processing, and text processing."

6.30pm - Doors open

7.00pm - Deep Dive: "Project Tungsten" - Spark's Largest Performance Optimizations to Date

7.40pm - Break

7.50pm - Spark After Dark: Real time Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning with Spark

8.30pm - Pub!

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SoftLayer

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