Graphing it up with Cassandra and Spark

Data Masters and Big Data Folk!

This meetup is proudly sponsored by DataStax on Thursday June 16th, 2016 (6pm) once again at the York Butter Factory in Melbourne CBD.

Topic of the Night – ‘Graphing it up with Cassandra and Spark' by Aaron Morton (Co Founder of The Last Pickle) and Mick Semb Wever (Consultant at The Last Pickle).

Sponsor of the night is DataStax, looking very much forward to
hearing these 2 rockstars, Aaron and Mick, speak all things Big Data, Cassandra and Spark.

Synopsis

A quick overview of new features in the upcoming major release of DataStax Enterprise including DSE Graph and new Spark integrations. Graph computing is a major advancement in Big Data and Analytics because of its ability to model connections in real life - think social networks, credit card transactions, connected sensors and more! Imagine the myriad of insights you could unlock when that same Graph database is integrated with Spark to do real-time fraud detection, recommendation & personalisation engines, IoT and more!

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A bit more detail about the Meetup: The 3.x versions of Apache Cassandra brought a lot of changes to the way data is stored and manipulated. It's exciting, even for people who have been using it since version 0.4.

For this session we will have four 20 minute talks:

1. Introduction to Cassandra
   Explaining some of the architecture and operations that Cassandra uses to operate of as cluster of machines, how it handles consistency, and the basics of reading and writing data to disk.

2. What's new in CQL
   Looking at recent improvements such as Materialised Views, UDF and UDAs (well, they were 2.2 but who's counting), per partition Limits, and why you dont have to "freeze" your UDT's.

3. Storage Engine Changes
   Diving into the new 3.X storage engine format, a major re-write of the on disk format. The storage engine now understands the CQL layout and optimises the bytes used on disk and how they are accessed.

4. The Bleeding Edge
   Talking about what has just arrived and what is coming. This talk will touch on ideas like SASI indexes, Change Data Capture, Partition Level Aggregations. and Thread Per Core.

A bit more about our Rockstar speakers:

Aaron Morton is the Co Founder & CEO at The Last Pickle (thelastpickle.com (http://thelastpickle.com/)). A professional services company that works with clients to deliver and improve Apache Cassandra based solutions. He's based in New Zealand, is an Apache Cassandra Committer and a DataStax MVP for Apache Cassandra.

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Mick Semb Wever is a Team Member and Consultant at The Last Pickle (thelastpickle.com (http://thelastpickle.com/)). He's based in Australia, is a PMC Chair for Apache Tiles and a DataStax MVP for Apache Cassandra. Mick is an advocate for change towards microservices built upon modern data-driven practices that introduce eventually consistent highly available solutions using Apache technologies like Cassandra, Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka.

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We look forward to seeing you again on Thursday June 16th for another fun night, so please invite a friend or two (or three) to join the meetup group, RSVP this another very special meetup, particpate, network, fill your stomach's with food and drink but most importantly wear your big data hat (regardless if your hat reads BDNewbie or BDGuru).

RSVP away, please email Eric Ramirez ( erick.ramirez@datastax.com ) for any dietary needs otherwise see you soon at the meetup!

Cheers/Ciao for now,

Fernando and Ned!