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March 5–6, 2018: Training
March 6–8, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
San Jose, CA

Ask Me Anything: Streaming architectures and applications (Kafka, Spark, Akka, and microservices)

Dean Wampler (Anyscale), Boris Lublinsky (Lightbend)
2:40pm–3:20pm Thursday, March 8, 2018
Ask Me Anything
 Location: 212 A-B
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Join Dean Wampler and Boris Lublinsky to discuss all things streaming, from architecture and implementation to streaming engines and frameworks. Be sure to bring your questions about techniques for serving machine learning models in production, traditional big data systems, or software architecture in general.

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Dean Wampler

Anyscale

Dean Wampler is an expert in streaming data systems, focusing on applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence (ML/AI). He’s head of developer relations at Anyscale, which is developing Ray for distributed Python, primarily for ML/AI. Previously, he was an engineering VP at Lightbend, where he led the development of Lightbend CloudFlow, an integrated system for building and running streaming data applications with Akka Streams, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, and Apache Kafka. Dean is the author of Fast Data Architectures for Streaming Applications, Programming Scala, and Functional Programming for Java Developers, and he’s the coauthor of Programming Hive, all from O’Reilly. He’s a contributor to several open source projects. A frequent conference speaker and tutorial teacher, he’s also the co-organizer of several conferences around the world and several user groups in Chicago. He earned his PhD in physics from the University of Washington.

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Boris Lublinsky

Lightbend

Boris Lublinsky is a principal architect at Lightbend, where he specializes in big data, stream processing, and services. Boris has over 30 years’ experience in enterprise architecture. Previously, he was responsible for setting architectural direction, conducting architecture assessments, and creating and executing architectural road maps in fields such as big data (Hadoop-based) solutions, service-oriented architecture (SOA), business process management (BPM), and enterprise application integration (EAI). Boris is the coauthor of Applied SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies, Professional Hadoop Solutions, and Serving Machine Learning Models. He’s also cofounder of and frequent speaker at several Chicago user groups.