What's coming for Spark in 2015

Live Stream Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWppYPWznSQ

In this talk, Patrick Wendell from Databricks will be speaking about new developments in Spark and identifying areas of focus in the coming year. A major focus for Spark in 2015 is providing extension points for integration of Spark with other system, libraries, and programming models.

Spark has a new a data sources API that allows for optimized input and output into many storage systems (relational databases, noSQL storage, etc) with high throughput and minimal configuration. Spark's machine learning and streaming libraries are also providing new extension points to allow for deeper integration of user libraries. Finally, to help users discover new user libraries for Spark, we've introduced a new community package index Spark Packages (http://spark-packages.org/). The talk will cover these developments and highlight relevant features in the recent 1.2 release (http://spark.apache.org/news/spark-1-2-0-released.html).

The talk will be livestreamed, and the video will be published on the Apache Spark channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/TheApacheSpark) on YouTube.

Also, this will be the first public meetup held at the new Databricks office in downtown SF (https://www.google.com/maps/place/160+Spear+St,+San+Francisco,+CA+94105/@37.7912835,-122.3935614,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x80858064f8f50461:0x1847f1d170467275)!

Agenda

6:00pm - 7:00pm - Drinks, food, mingle

7:00pm - 8:30pm - Presentations

8:30pm - 9:00pm - More mingling