Apache Spark 101

Join us for an intro to Apache Spark for the newbies and some current use cases and advances for those already using Spark.

Spark 101

With the rapid adoption of Apache Spark—one of the most active Apache projects today—and the need for programs to solve the world’s greatest problems, distributed computing has resurfaced as a hot commodity that can take your career to the next level. More importantly, Spark opens the door to some really cool and impactful applications.

Spark is a leap forward in distributed computing, allowing you to perform faster and more complex analyses on your Hadoop cluster and in the cloud. This presentation will introduce developers to basic Spark concepts such as DAGs, RDDs, transformations, actions, and executors. We will also cover recent developments in the Spark community with DataFrames, Streaming, SQL on Spark, and more.

Speaker: Daniel Flavin, Cloudera System Engineer

Agenda

• 6-630pm Food & Drinks

• 630-715pm Spark Talk with Q&A

• 715 - 8pm Networking