Apache Spark in Cassandra

*** PLEASE NOTE THAT MATT'S PRESENTATION WILL BE IN ENGLISH ***

We are really excited to have Matt Pfeil and Victor Coustenoble from DataStax over with us for the next MeetUp. We will focus specifically on Spark and Cassandra which is going to be a hot topic in the analytics world this year.

Agenda:

19:00 – 19:30: Reception(with drinks and snacks)

19:30 – 20:00: Matt Pfeil presentation on Spark in Cassandra

20:00 - 20:30: Victor Coustenoble (technical deep dive)

20:30 – 21:00: Q&A

21:00 – 21:30: Networking

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DataStax, the company that delivers Apache Cassandra to the Enterprise, last month announced a partnership with Databricks, the company founded by the creators of Apache Spark. As the database industry’s first partnership to integrate Spark and Cassandra, DataStax and Databricks will deliver significantly faster analytics to users of both open source technologies and enable today’s most progressive businesses to deliver highly personalized online customer experiences.

By integrating Apache Spark and Apache Cassandra, lightning-fast analytics are now embedded into the transaction processing of the Distributed DBMS

Partnership will deliver open source code back to the Apache Spark and Apache Cassandra communities to ensure that developers always have the most cutting-edge technologies

Matt Pfeil

Matt is Chief Customer Officer & Co-Founder at DataStax. Prior to DataStax, Matt built and managed the Email and Apps infrastructure development group at Rackspace.

Prior to Rackspace, Matt was at Webmail.us where he worked in various management roles in infrastructure and scalability. Matt holds a BS from Virginia Tech in Computer Science.

Victor Coustenoble

Victor has worked for over 15 years in the software industry as a consultant, project manager or pre-sales. He has worked with software companies data-mining (KXEN), planning (Jedox) and data visualisation (Tibco). He is a Solutions Engineer at DataStax France.

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Special thanks to Zenika for hosting us. This is going to be a popular MeetUp so book early!

See you there!