Presented By O'Reilly and Cloudera
Make Data Work
Sept 29–Oct 1, 2015 • New York, NY
Dean Wampler

Dean Wampler
VP, Fast Data Engineering, Lightbend

Website | @deanwampler

Dean Wampler is the vice president of fast data engineering at Lightbend, where he leads the creation of the Lightbend Fast Data Platform, a distribution of scalable, distributed stream processing tools including Spark, Flink, Kafka, and Akka, with machine learning and management tools. Dean is the author of Programming Scala and Functional Programming for Java Developers and the coauthor of Programming Hive, all from O’Reilly. He is a contributor to several open source projects. A frequent Strata speaker, he’s also the co-organizer of several conferences around the world and several user groups in Chicago.

Sessions

2:55pm–3:35pm Thursday, 10/01/2015
Spark on Mesos
Spark & Beyond
 Location: 1 E20 / 1 E21 Level: Intermediate
Dean Wampler (Lightbend)
Average rating: ****.
(4.33, 6 ratings)
Apache Spark is often seen as a replacement for MapReduce in Hadoop systems, but Spark clusters can also be deployed and managed by Mesos. This talk explains how to use Mesos for Spark applications. We'll examine the pros and cons of using Mesos vs. Hadoop YARN as a data platform, and discuss practical issues when running Spark on Mesos. We'll even discuss how to combine the two with Myriad. Read more.
3:45pm–4:25pm Thursday, 10/01/2015
Office Hour with Dean Wampler (Typesafe)
Office Hours
 Location: Table A (O'Reilly Booth)
Dean Wampler (Lightbend)
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