Palo Alto: An Intro to Apache Spark (with Hadoop) for Plain Old Java Geeks

An Intro to Apache Spark (with Hadoop) for Plain Old Java Geeks w/Scott Deeg

NOTE: THIS MEETUP IS IN PALO ALTO at 5:45pm PDT

6:00-6:30 pm Pizza and networking
6:30-8:00 pm Talk and Q&A
8:00-8:30 pm Wind down

Apache Spark is one of the most exciting Apache projects happening right now, but where does a Plain Old Java Geek get started? This talk will provide an introduction to the principals and use of Apache Spark with a Hadoop/HDFS backend. We'll talk about Spark fundamentals like Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDDs), how Spark is different from other in-memory technologies, various related projects surrounding Spark (eg: Shark), deployment topologies, address such question as "Do I need to know Scala?", look at some Java (and Scala) code, and even a little bit on PaaS scenarios.

About the speaker:

Scott Deeg began his journey with Java in 1996 as a member of the Visual Cafe team at Symantec, and since then has been bouncing around Silicon Valley in a variety of positions, primarily in the enterprise Java application space. As a member of Pivotal he works with large enterprises on their strategy for building and operationalizing modern applications in cloud architectures, and occasionally even gets to write some code.