Using C* in a Distributed, Large-scale Object Store & C*+ ElasticSearch+Spark

For this meetup we are excited to be joined by two great presenters, Gary Ogasawara, VP of Engineering at Cloudian and Jamie Turner, CTO and Co-Founder of Postcode Anywhere.

What You'll Learn At This Meetup:

Gary Ogasawara: Discover how Cloudian HyperStore object storage solutions use Cassandra to deliver a distributed, resilient, and elastic system. HyperStore software is ideal for enterprises and service providers looking to offer highly scalable, on-premises Amazon S3-compatible storage. Cassandra plays a key role in data distribution logic, especially in geographically distributed, multi-data center use cases. A 360 degree view of the project will be examined.

Jamie Turner: Hear the trials and tribulations of wrestling Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Spark and Kafka into a Windows environment? Why building for the web has some real gotchas (especially when using IIS) and how you can get round them? We'll look at a real-world Lambda architecture built around these components - and drill down into the Spark/Cassandra integration, as an example of some of those gotchas and the solutions available.

• Food and drinks will be served, hope to see you all there!

*Big thank you to Braintree for hosting and Cloudian for presenting and sponsoring food+drinks

About Gary Ogasawara:

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Gary Ogasawara heads up Cloudian's global engineering and operations teams spread across the Silicon Valley, Tokyo, and Beijing offices. Gary has over 15 years of hands on engineering management experience at startups and larger companies. Gary has led the development of all of Cloudian's products and their worldwide enterprise deployments. Prior to Cloudian, Gary was Director of Engineering at e-Centives, an e-Commerce search engine company. He also led the development of real-time e-commerce and advertising systems at Inktomi, a leading Internet search engine and CDN gateway company. Gary holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, where he specialized in Bayesian decision theory, uncertainty reasoning and machine learning.

About Jamie Turner:

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As Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Postcode Anywhere, Jamie is responsible for the data-as-a-service infrastructure that powers over 9,000 businesses globally. Jamie has a considerable knowledge of how to develop a scalable SaaS platform which meets the resilience and reliability requirements of the on-demand market. Jamie is also leading the product development of Triggar.com - a new real-time, big data, analytics platform powered by Cassandra, Spark and Elasticsearch. Jamie holds a first-class honours degree in Computing Science from Aston University, where he received a faculty accolade for 'an outstanding contribution to technological innovation'.