Long-Lived Spark Applications

Title: Long-Lived Spark Applications

When: April 27th 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Getting Here: AddThis HQ is located next to the Silver lines' Spring Hill Metro station. Free parking is also available. If you have trouble getting in please call Brad at 571.278.5205

Food: AddThis with provide beer and sodas and Cloudera will provide Pizza. There are plenty of local bars available if people would like to continue the discussion after the talk.

Sponsors: AddThis (http://www.addthis.com), Cloudera (http://www.cloudera.com/)

Description:
In this talk, we will explore the idea of long-lived Apache Spark applications: From Spark Streaming, Spark Shell, Hive on Spark, and custom apps. When should one consider a long-lived job, and what are the considerations when building one?

Speaker:
Ted Malaska is a Solutions Architect at Cloudera. He has 18 years of professional experience working for startups, the U.S. Federal Government, some of the world's largest banks, and the U.S.'s largest non-profit financial regulator. Ted is a regular contributor to Apache Flume, Apache Avro, Apache Pig, and YARN.