Cassandra Part II

18:30 - Doors Open (Pizza to be served at this time)

19:00 - Jon Haddad: Enter the Snake Pit for Fast and Easy Spark

20:00 Alex Petrov: Cassandra for Data Processing Backends

21:00 - Networking

Jon Haddad "Enter the Snake Pit for Fast and Easy Spark"

Jon has 15 years experience in both development and operations. For the last 10 he's worked at various startups in southern California. For the last 2 years he's been the maintainer of cqlengine, the Python object mapper for Cassandra, now integrated into the native Cassandra driver. He's a Technical Evangelist at Datastax, continuing to focus on advancing Cassandra in the Python, operations and data science communities. Jon holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Vermont. Technical Evangelist at DataStax.

Alex Petrov "Cassandra for Data Processing Backends"

Alex is a Polyglot Programmer, Lead Data Infrastructure Engineer at Instana Inc, a long-term Cassandra user, 2015 Cassandra MVP, Project Reactor committer, working on data processing pipelines, distributed systems and near-realtime processing backends.

He’s going to talk about using Cassandra for data procesing backends: how to run complex offline aggregate queries on large datasets with stream fusion, a great concept that has raised from the research from University of New South Wales. The talk is also going to cover how to pack your models, how to make access them in a fast, concurrent manner.