St. Louis Hadoop Users Group Meetup

About the Presentation:
Our March meeting will feature Scott Crawford presenting "Kafka 101: Everything you wanted to know about Apache Kafka but we're afraid to ask."

Apache Kafka brings publish-subscribe messaging to the scale required for Big Data. Originally developed at LinkedIn, it is now an open source Apache project, which a variety of organizations are using to connect applications that produce data to others that consume it. During this presentation, Scott will explain more about what Kafka is, how it works, and popular use cases for this technology.

About the Speaker:
Scott Crawford is a Senior Systems Engineer with Cloudera, based locally in St. Louis. Scott's job as Systems Engineer is to help companies evaluate and architect solutions to Big Data problems using Cloudera's leading EDH product stack. Previous to Cloudera, Scott worked as an Account Technology Strategist at Microsoft, where he helped companies evaluate Microsoft's Cloud offerings. Scott spent 7 years at a local startup, Appistry, helping customers architect and build cloud-scale applications. Scott learned to work with customers during a 7 year stint at Rational Software/IBM, and began his professional career as a real-time embedded software developer, building operational flight software for a cruise missile as well as control software for ground based aircraft landing equipment. Scott has bachelor's degrees in both Computer and Electrical Engineering. Scott has had a passion for solving tough problems with computers and software for 33 years which began with writing BASIC applications on an Atari 400.

About the Sponsor:
Cloudera (http://www.cloudera.com/) is sponsoring the meeting space, food, and drinks for this meeting.