Extending the Yahoo! Streaming Benchmark & Winning Twitter Hack-Week with Flink

Please join us for an exciting evening to learn more about Real-Time streaming with Apache Flink (http://flink.apache.org) from Jamie Grier, Director of Applications Engineering at Data Artisans (http://data-artisans.com).

Schedule:

6:00 pm - 6:15 pm : Networking, pizza and drinks

6:15 pm – 7:15 pm : Talk

7:15 pm - 7:30 pm : Q&A

Talk description: In this talk Jamie will be delving further into his recent work with Apache Flink that resulted in the recent blog post published on February 2nd, 2016: “Extending the Yahoo! Streaming Benchmark and Winning Twitter Hack-Week with Apache Flink” (http://data-artisans.com/extending-the-yahoo-streaming-benchmark/)

Jamie will go through some comparisons between Storm (and similar streaming frameworks) and Flink both in terms of processing guarantees and performance.

He’ll also talk about some of the new architectural patterns that can be realized via a modern stateful stream processing system like Flink and what kind of advantages these patterns provide.

Bio: Jamie Grier is Director of Applications Engineering at Data Artisans where he’s extremely excited to be able to help others realize the potential of Flink in their own projects. His goal is to help others design systems to solve challenging problems in the real world. Jamie has been working in the field of streaming computation for the last decade spanning everything from ultra-high-performance video stream acquisition and processing to social media analytics.

Prior to Data Artisans, Jamie was at Twitter working on rethinking Twitter's real-time analytics stack with the goals of making it much more efficient and also capable of computing accurate results in real-time without relying on the “Lambda Architecture”.

Jamie is interested in streaming computation and mechanically sympathetic software architectures. He is particularly interested in building systems that are both high performance and highly scalable and his favorite quote is “You can have a second computer once you’ve demonstrated you know how to use the first one”

Sponsor:

Capital One

Directions:

Note - Park in the parking garage next to the 8020 Towers Crescent Drive building. The event is on 9th floor, room 984, bring your parking ticket along to be validated at the event.

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