Spark - The steroid for Hadoop

Hello East Bay Biggies,

We have another great presentation scheduled for the month of April.

Abhijit Thatte, Head - Analytics Software, GE software, will be presenting on Wednesday, April 30, 2014.

He will present Spark architecture and enlighten us on - how does Spark speed up job performance by 10 to 100 times on a typical Hadoop job. He will also give an overview of Spark eco-system.

Agenda:

6:30 PM - 7:00 PM -- Social & Pizza
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM -- Presentation by Abhijit Thatte

"Spark - The steroid for Hadoop”

8:00 PM - 8:30 PM -- Q/A and discussion.

Thanks to Veeva Systems for allowing us to host this event in their offices.

Let us make this meet-up a great place to share our knowledge and experiences with each other.

Please suggest topics and speakers for the future meet-up presentations.

Hope to see you all, the East Bay Biggies on 30th April, 2014.

-Shiv