Databricks: Apache Spark - The SDK for All Big Data Platforms

Speaker: Pat McDonough, Technical Director - Client Solutions at Databricks Apache Spark has grown to be one of the largest open source communities in big data, with over 190 developers and dozens of companies contributing. The latest 1.0 release alone includes contributions from 117 people. A clean API, interactive shell, distributed in-memory computation, stream processing, interactive SQL, and libraries delivering everything from machine learning to graph processing make it an excellent unified platform to solve a number of problems. Apache Spark works very well with a growing number of big data solutions, including Cassandra and Hadoop. Come learn about Apache Spark and see how easy it is for you to get started using Spark to build your own high performance big data applications today.