March Presentation Night

Thanks go to DataXu for hosting both the space and food and drink for this event!

Doors will open at 6PM for networking and food. Presentations will start at 6:45PM.

Lightning: Simeon Simeonov, founder & CTO of Swoop, will give us a preview of his upcoming Spark Summit talk: Idempotence makes big data systems simpler & saner. Unfortunately, it is rarer than Unicorn dust in Spark. In five minutes we will cover the What, the So What? and the O, Shoot! of this four syllable term leaving enough time for a brief prayer that Spark gets more of it soonish.

Feature: Nick Chammas will share his talk on “Flintrock: A Faster, Better spark-ec2”

spark-ec2 (https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/ec2-scripts.html) is a handy little tool for spinning up Spark clusters on EC2, but it has a few frustrating problems that are difficult to solve within its current architecture. In this talk, Nick will give an overview of Flintrock (https://github.com/nchammas/flintrock), a single-purpose command-line tool for launching and interacting with Spark clusters on EC2. Flintrock is open source and aims to be the spiritual successor to spark-ec2