10th Spark London Meetup


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A real treat this month - we have Chris Fregly over from the San Francisco. He'll be giving us two talks: a deep dive into new performance optimisations in Spark and and talk on advanced analytics using Spark.
Thanks to our Sponsor: SoftLayer.
Chris Fregly is a Principal Data Solutions Engineer for the IBM Spark Technology Center, Apache Spark Contributor, Netflix Open Source Committer - as well as the Organizer of the San Francisco-based Advanced Apache Spark Meetup.
Formerly, Chris was a Data Solutions and Platform Engineer at Databricks and Netflix.
Deep Dive: "Project Tungsten" - Spark's Largest Performance Optimizations to Date
Deep dive into the CPU and Memory optimizations implemented as part of Project Tungsten. We'll discuss JVM code generation, CPU-cache locality, and self-managed (Unsafe) garbage collection."
Spark After Dark: Real time Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning with Spark
The audience will participate in a live, interactive demo that generates high-quality recommendations using the latest Spark-Cassandra and Spark-ElasticSearch connectors for real time, approximate, and advanced analytics including machine learning, graph processing, and text processing."
6.30pm - Doors open
7.00pm - Deep Dive: "Project Tungsten" - Spark's Largest Performance Optimizations to Date
7.40pm - Break
7.50pm - Spark After Dark: Real time Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning with Spark
8.30pm - Pub!
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10th Spark London Meetup