Blueprint Series: Speed Up Your Apache Cassandra Applications – A Practical Guide to Reactive Programming

Speaker: Cedrick Lunven, Developer Advocate, DataStax Speaker Bio: Cedrick is a Developer Advocate at DataStax where he finds opportunities to share his passions by speaking about developing distributed architectures and implementing reference applications for developers. In 2013, he created FF4j, an open source framework for Feature Toggle which he still...

Migrating Machine Learning to Spark on the Cloud

OVERCOME BY EVENTS – APACHE KAFKA AND EVENT-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE

In this talk, Jay Kreps will explain why the Military term ‘Overcome by Events’ or OBE can now be applied to systems – as they are being overrun by events. Confluent’s CEO will also discuss Event Oriented Architecture and how is it affecting the systems we build and scalability of...

OVERCOME BY EVENTS: APACHE KAFKA AND EVENT-ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE

In this talk, Jay Kreps will explain why the Military term ‘Overcome by Events’ or OBE can now be applied to systems – as they are being overrun by events. Confluent’s CEO will also discuss Event Oriented Architecture and how is it affecting the systems we build and scalability of...

PROJECT HYDROGEN: UNIFYING AI WITH APACHE SPARK

Matei Zaharia joins keynote lineup

Big Data LDN is pleased to announce another global data expert confirmed to speak in the Big Data LDN keynote theatre. Matei Zaharia started the original Apache Spark computing engine and helped to develop other widely used open source software including Apache Mesos, Alluxio and job schedulers for Apache Hadoop....

Hadoop and Spark – what are the differences?

Hadoop and Spark are the two main infrastructure framework available to store and process all of your big data. When Spark emerged in 2014, many predicted it would overtake Hadoop as the leading service, but the two both remain widely used. The biggest reason for this is the huge differences...