Apache Tez - A Modern Processing Engine for Hadoop 2

Hello members

we have an exciting session for April. Bikas Saha (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bikassaha) from HortonWorks will talk about Apache Tez.

This is hosted at Symantec, Mountain View.
(The campus is right next to 'Middlefield' light rail station. map (http://www.vta.org/getting-around/interactive-light-rail-map))

This is a FREE event.

Agenda:
6-630pm : networking, food
630pm - 8pm : main presentation

Session Description:
Apache Tez is a modern data processing engine designed for YARN on Hadoop 2. Tez aims to provide high performance and efficiency out of the box, across the spectrum of low latency queries and heavy-weight batch processing. It provides a sophisticated topology API, advanced scheduling and concurrency control & proven fault tolerance. The talk will elaborate on these features via real use cases from early adopters like Hive, Pig and Cascading. We will show examples of using the Tez API for targeting new & existing applications to the Tez engine. Finally we will provide data to show the robustness and performance of the Tez platform so that users can get on-board with confidence.

About the speaker:
Bikas has been working in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem since 2011 and is a committer/PMC member of the Apache Hadoop and Tez projects. He has been a key contributor in making Hadoop run natively on Windows and has focused on YARN and the Hadoop compute stack, with special interest in Tez. Prior to Hadoop, he has worked extensively on the Dryad distributed data processing framework that runs on some of the world’s largest clusters as part of Microsoft Bing infrastructure. @bikassaha