1st ever SMACK Atlanta Meetup!

REGARDING LOCATION - ABUG/SMACK Stack - Meetup

• Meeting in Piedmont Center Office Complex in Building 15 (http://www.piedmontcenter.com/37/Lease-Atlanta-Commercial-Buckhead-Office-Space-Map-of-Property.htm) (back left corner of the property)
• Enter Property from Piedmont Rd (traffic light), follow the signs to Building 15.
• There is free visitor parking right outside the building.
• Enter building 15 and take the elevator down one level to floor "P" - Suite 140.
• There will be Atlanta Big Data MeetUp Signs to help guide you.

Companies like Netflix, LinkedIn, PayPal, Twitter, and Airbnb are what we would traditionally think of as web-scale companies, and over the course of the past decade, they have invested heavily in their infrastructure to solve scale and performance requirements that traditional architecture could not handle. During this process, they developed a new technology stack (or pattern) made up of open source solutions that have helped them scale elastically to meet and exceed growing demand and at the same time collect, process, and analyze customer data to make real-time decisions. One of the patterns that have emerged from these web-scale companies is called the SMACK stack ( Spark-Mesos-Akka-Cassandra-Kafka).

This will be the first of a multi-part series where we bring in industry experts to talk about the different components and how each can help your organization take part in what’s being called “The Digital Transformation.”

We will help you better understand how these open source projects fit together and why the traditional enterprise organization is now seeing a needed utilize these same systems (or patterns) that the web-scale companies have already pioneered to solve similar use-cases in their environment. In the first part, we will provide a technical overview the components of the “SMACK” stack and talk about building a modern, cloud-native architecture that is Responsive, Elastic, Resilient, and Message Driven.

Covering a few of the key principals including

1. Microservices (Web, Mobile, IoT)
2. Durable Messaging Backplane
3. Data Persistence & Storage
4. Stream Processing
5. Machine Learning & Deep Learning
6. Intelligent Management
7. Cluster Analysis
8. Infrastructure (On-Premise, Cloud, Hybrid)

This discussion will also dive into one of the core components of the SMACK stack ~ Akka, which is an advanced toolkit and message-driven runtime based on the Actor Model that helps development teams build the right foundation for successful microservices architectures and streaming data pipelines. This discussion will be led by, Duncan DeVore, who specializes in the design and implementation of distributed systems using the tenets of the Reactive Manifesto with Scala, Akka and the Lightbend stack. He believes in responsible design through functional programming with an abundance of test coverage. He loves to code, present and help others work through the challenges of distributed computing.