Getting Started with Spark & Cassandra

For this meetup we will be joined by Jon Haddad, Technical Evangelist for Apache Cassandra at DataStax. Jon will go over how to get started with Apache Cassandra and Spark.

What You'll Learn At This Meetup:

Massively scalable, always on, and ridiculously fast. Apache Cassandra is the database chosen by Apple, Netflix, and 30 of the Fortune 100 to power their critical infrastructure. How do we analyze petabytes of data, whether it be massive batching or as it’s ingested via streaming with Apache Kafka? Enter Apache Spark. Challenging MapReduce head on, Apache Spark offers powerful constructs that make it possible to slice and dice your data, whether it be through machine learning, graph queries, as well as transformations familiar to people with functional programming backgrounds such as map, filter, and reduce. Step away ready to rock with the most powerful distributed database, scalable messaging, and analytics platform on the planet.

About Jon Haddad:

Jon has 10 years experience in both development and operations working at startups in southern California. For the last 2 years he's been a committer to cqlengine, the Python object mapper for Cassandra. He's now a Technical Evangelist at Datastax, continuing to focus on advancing Cassandra in the Python community.

*A big thank you to Hulu for hosting and to Datastax for providing food, drinks and swag. Hope to see you all there!