Spark + Cassandra

For this meetup we are excited to be joined by Sameer Farooqui, Client Services Engineer at Databricks who will be discussing Spark+Cassandra!

What You'll Learn At This Meetup:

Sameer will discuss the technicals behind Cassandra's integration with Spark and then dive into some of the Spark internals, followed by a live demo. After some of the architecture overview, Sameer will discuss some elusive parts of Spark including the new shuffle implementation, RDD programming considerations and best practices for using Spark. The live demo will feature Databricks Cloud.

About Sameer Farooqui:

Our speaker, Sameer Farooqui, is a Client Services Engineer at Databricks where he focuses on developing training curriculum and providing consulting services for Apache Spark. Before his current role, Sameer spent 2 years as a freelance trainer and consultant for big data, specializing in Hadoop, Cassandra, HBase, Hive, Couchbase, OpenStack and NoSQL architectures in general. Sameer has taught over 100 classes globally for various clients and was a DataStax certified training partner. He has been using Cassandra since 2010, around version 0.7. Prior to freelancing Sameer worked as a Systems Architect at Hortonworks, an Emerging Data Platforms Consultant at Accenture R&D and a Enterprise Consultant at Symantec (VERITAS division).