Another one of the recordings from last year’s Reactive Summit in Austin. Dean Wampler talked about “Scala and the JVM as a Big Data Platform Lessons from Apache Spark”.
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Helena Edelson about massive scale distributed systems and massively big data
Helena (@helenaedelson) has been a Software Engineer for over 15 years. After a decade in distributed messaging she moved exclusively to working with Scala, first for cloud infrastructure automation, then big data, all for large scale distributed systems. As a Senior Cloud Engineer she was on the first Scala team at VMware building multi-tenant cloud automation systems, then in big data architecting, building and deploying streaming and batch analytics pipelines for Cyber Security for real time threat analysis.
Katrin Shechtman about Microservices and Checklists
Time for a new speaker interview again. I spoke to Katrin Shechtman to find out how Microservices and Checklists go together.
Kam Kasravi about Akka Streams and Apache Gearpump
Kam is a real time streaming architect developing analytic pipelines that integrate into Intel’s Trusted Analytics Platform. He is an avid fan of akka, scala and platforms based on these architectures with past roles within eBay, Paypal and Yahoo.