A Series of Talks on Apache Heron - Part 3

This is the 17th of our monthly hands-on sessions in Apache Heron, the fastest streaming engine.

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Moving to Thursday December 19, 2019 as Holiday Swag didn't arrive on time today.

IntelliJ Ultimate Edition licenses for developing Apache Heron.
Stickers Stickers and more Stickers to decorate your laptop.

Thank you.
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Come on over with your laptop and meet the creators.
Also, we will help you prepare you for your journey into Apache Heron.

Agenda:
630-700: Newbie Intro to Apache Heron & Java; Laptop Setup.
700-730 : Networking over Gourmet Food and Drinks.
730-830 : A Series of Talks on Apache Heron - Part 3
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Manage Topologies
Topics covered:

1. Heron client, `heron-core.tar.gz` and YAML configuration
2. Topology life cycle, submit topology and observe its running status
3. Explore `heron` command
4. Heron tracker
5. Heron UI
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   {*** It's okay, if you haven't attended part 1 & part 2. These are individual topics grouped in to parts for time duration of meetups. ***}
   830-900 : Q & A.

Huijun Wu, is an engineer working at Twitter, Inc. He has been working on the Heron project since 2016 summer when Twitter open sourced Heron code. He is a founding member of the Apache Incubator Heron. He is an Apache Committer.

Ning Wang, is a software engineer in Amplitude Analytics in Data Pipeline team. He was working in realtime-compute team at Twitter as well Web team and Observability team. He is an active contributor in Heron project and an Apache Committer. Prior to Twitter, Ning worked at Youtube and many years in the game industry.

Karthik Ramasamy, Co-Founder, has over two decades of experience in real-time data processing, parallel databases, big data infrastructure, and networking. He was engineering manager and technical lead for Real Time Analytics at Twitter, where he co-created the Heron real-time engine. Prior to Twitter, Karthik was co-founder of Locomatix, a company specialized in real-time processing on Hadoop and Cassandra, and worked at Greenplum and Juniper Networks. He is the author of several publications, patents and co-author of Network Routing: Algorithms, Protocols and Architectures.

Host Bio:
Sree Vaddi, Strategic Solutions Architect & Technical Advisor (ML/DL/AI, IoT, FinTech), a Java Veteran and an Apache Committer. Started his journey in Java in 1995, downloading a copy of JDK 1.0.2 from javasoft.com. Continued working in Java, including an opportunity to work at JavaSoft of Sun Microsystems in 1998 and further to today and ever. He is experienced in Core Java, Enterprise Edition, Mobile, Big Data, IoT and ML/DL/AI. He has been contributing to open source since 1997.

What we covered:
2018:
Month#0. An intro to Apache and it's major features - San Francisco
Sep 2018: An intro to Apache and it's major features - South Bay
Oct 2018: Caladrius
Nov 2018: Apache Heron - Stateful
Dec 2018: Caladrius (On popular demand)

2019:
Jan 2019: Streamlet: Heron Functional API
Feb 2019: Use of Heron at Twitter for Network Analysis
Mar 2019: A Series of Talks on Apache Heron - Part 1
(Low-Level API in Java & Python; Migrate a Storm Topology to Heron Topology.)
Apr 2019: First Year Anniversary @ Twitter HQ in San Francisco.
May 2019: Heron Packing Algorithms.
Jun 2019: Real-time monitoring of Twitter's network infrastructure with Heron (with ACM)
Jul 2019: Heron Streamlet API in Java, Python and Scala
Aug 2019: Streamlet: Heron Functional API
Sep 2019: Apache Heron - Stateful
Oct 2019: A Series of Talks on Apache Heron - Part 2
Nov 2019: Streamlet: Heron Functional API
Dec 2019: A Series of Talks on Apache Heron - Part 3
(Manage Topologies)

Please join me in thanking our sponsors:

1. Red Hat for generously providing their facility to host our meetup and for providing food and drinks.
   http://www.redhat.com/
2. Twitter.com.
   https://twitter.com/
3. Streaml.io.
   https://streaml.io/
4. Foundation For Excellence.
   https://ffe.org/site/