Real-Life Apache Spark: Tips and Tricks from the Trenches

We are happy to announce a hands-on presentation by Dr. Noah S. Bieler, Principal Data Scientist at Wealthport. He is going to talk about many practical aspects of Spark.

This includes: some common pitfalls and performance problems; when to use RDDs, DataFrames or DataSets; how you can enrich the functionality of some Spark classes or add your own types in Scala; and finally how you can deploy Spark in the cloud together with Cassandra, a large-scale database for the cloud.

This is going to be a more technical talk and you will see some real-life code as it is used in Wealthport's data preparation as a service offering.