Spark after Dark by Chris Fregly of Databricks

Abstract
Spark After Dark is a mock dating site that uses the latest Spark libraries, AWS Kinesis, Lambda Architecture, and Probabilistic Data Structures to generate dating recommendations.

There will be 5+ demos covering everything from basic data ETL to advanced data processing including Alternating Least Squares Machine Learning/Collaborative Filtering and PageRank Graph Processing.

There is heavy emphasis on Spark Streaming and AWS Kinesis.

Bio
Chris Fregly is an Apache Spark Contributor and Field Engineering Consultant at Databricks. He's the author of the upcoming book, Effective Spark and Spark in Action by Manning. Previously, Chris worked at Netflix as a Streaming Data Platform Engineer.

Free Parking is available on the streets after 6 PM. Please make sure you only park in metered spots. The neighborhood is permit parking only. You can also park by the Santa Monica Library which is a few blocks away.

We will be raffling off books by O'Reilly

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