Apache NiFi Introduction

Rob Sader will join us from Onyara, now Hortonworks, to discuss the Apache NiFi project and how it works. Apache NiFi is an extensible data processing and integration framework. NiFi can construct highly structured data flows with connectors into many traditional and Hadoop-related technologies.
https://nifi.apache.org/

Rob's Bio:

Rob is the Emerging Product Specialist for Hortonworks in Canada, responsible for educating organizations on new open source frameworks from the Apache Software Foundation. Within that Emerging Products Team, Rob focuses primarily on educating companies on the capabilities and architecture of Apache NiFi and how it fits into the broader Big Data Ecosystem. Previous to Hortonworks, Rob was a Co-Founder and Head of Business Development for Onyara, a startup that was formed to commercialize service and support for Apache NiFi and was sold to Hortonworks in August of 2015. Previous to Onyara, Rob led early business development efforts at a variety enterprise software startups and was a Product Specialist at Salesforce.com.