Distributed Scala: Easy Scalability with Akka and Spark in Action

The theme of this meetup is distributed processing.

Talks

Katrin will be presenting a talk called Easy Scalability with Akka. The Actor pattern, Akka Persistence, Clustering and CQRS: how to quickly and easily build a scalable 'enterprise grade' web service. She'll also share a summary of what went down at the Scala Days conference in San Francisco.

I'll (Sean) be presenting a short introduction to Apache Spark. We'll discuss how Spark works and its ability to plug into various cluster technologies. A few example operations will be demonstrated.

Sponsors

GuruLink is going to help cover logistical costs and Pager Duty/500 pixels will be providing the venue space. Thanks!

Tentative schedule

6:30 Doors Open

7:00 Introduction

7:05 A message from our sponsor: Alex Stobe of Gurulink will share some interesting Scala opportunities with the group.

7:10 Katrin Shechtman, BoldRadius, Easy Scalability with Akka as well as a recap of the Scala Days conference.

7:55 Sean Glover, Ethoca, Spark in Action

8:25 Raffle for IntelliJ license (and possibly another mystery prize??)

8:30 Social. Stick around and get to know your fellow Scala & Typesafe peers

Hope to see you there!