Apache Heron Hands-On (Monthly)

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

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 & Java; Laptop Setup.
700-715 : Networking over Gourmet Food and Drinks.
715-800 : Use of Heron at Twitter for Network Analysis. - Julien
800-845: Basic Understanding of Apache Heron. - Neng
845-915 : Q & A; Laptop Setup Continues...

Speaker Bios:

Speaker 1:
Julien Delange is a Staff Software Engineer at Twitter working on Network Infrastructure tools. He was previously a Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services working on the EC2 EBS infrastructure. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Universite Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, France and still believes wine and cheese are the best food combination.

Speaker 2:
Neng Lu, is a software engineer at Twitter. He has a broad interest in the distributed system and real-time analytics area. He worked on Twitter's Key-Value storage system (Manhattan), the monitoring system(Cuckoo) and real-time processing system(Heron). He is currently the core member of Twitter's realtime-compute team and the PMC and committer of Apache Incubator Heron project. He holds an MS degree in CS from UCLA and a Bachelor's degree in CS from Zhejiang University.

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

Please join me in thanking our sponsors:

1. Palo Alto Masonic Lodge #346, for generously providing their facility to host our meetup. 2B1Ask1.
   http://www.paloaltolodge346.org/
2. Twitter.com, for providing gourmet food, drinks and swag.
   https://twitter.com/
3. Streaml.io, for mentoring.
   https://streaml.io/
4. Foundation For Excellence, for generously providing swag to our meetup.
   https://ffe.org/site/