Data Ingestion with Spark and Kafka
In this tutorial, we will walk you through some of the basics of using Kafka and Spark to ingest data.
Gary Dusbabek
An Apache Cassandra committer and PMC member, Gary specializes in building distributed systems. Recent experience includes creating an open source high-volume metrics processing pipeline and building out several geographically distributed API services in the cloud.
Recent Posts
The Data Platform Puzzle
Building or rebuilding a data platform can be a daunting task, as most questions that need to be asked have open-ended answers. But that doesn’t mean you have to guess and use your gut.
Materialized Views with Cassandra
In this screencast, Principal Engineer and Cassandra committer Gary Dusbabek provides an overview of Materialized Views.
The Data Platform Puzzle
Building or rebuilding a data platform can be a daunting task, as most questions that need to be asked have open-ended answers. This post aims to help.
Evaluating Microservices: Real World Lessons
Microservices are a popular topic in developer circles, because they are a means of solving problems that have plagued monolithic software projects for decades. Namely, tardiness and bugs, both caused by complexity.
Past Events
2017
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OSCON Texas 2017
Austin, TXOSCON is a long-running conference focused on open source technology and communities. We’ll be there talking about our “push button” infrastructure tool.
2016
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Enterprise Data World San Diego 2016
San Diego, CASeveral of us will be at Enterprise Data World 2016 in San Diego. We’d love to say hi, and hear your thoughts.
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Strata + Hadoop World
San Jose, CAMany of us will be at the Strata Conference + Hadoop World 2016 in San Jose, and we’d love to see you there!
2015
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Enterprise Dataversity
Chicago, ILSVDS presents two tutorials: one on Data Strategy and one on building a Data Platform. In addition, Edd Dumbill participates in a panel, “The Data-Driven Organization – New Roles and Relationships.”
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Strata + Hadoop World NY 2015
New York, NYSeveral of us will be at the Strata + Hadoop World 2015 Conference in New York in September and we’d love to see you there. Join us for our tutorials and sessions, or come visit us at our booth in the Expo Hall.
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Cassandra Summit
Santa Clara, CASVDS presents two sessions at the Cassandra Summit: a look at the migration of our client Allant’s CDI-keying engine from Oracle to Cassandra; and a how-to on using Cassandra as a platform for building a custom distributed system.
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NoSQL Now!
San Jose, CAWhat are the essential components of a data platform? SVDS presents a tutorial that will explain how the various parts of the Hadoop and big data ecosystem fit together in production to create a data platform supporting batch, interactive and real-time analytical workloads.