Presented By
O’Reilly + Cloudera
Make Data Work
29 April–2 May 2019
London, UK
Simona Meriam

Simona Meriam
Big Data Engineer, Nielsen

Simona Meriam is a big data engineer at Nielsen Marketing Cloud, where she specializes in research and development of solutions for big data infrastructures using cutting-edge technologies such as Spark, Kafka, and Elasticsearch.

Sessions

14:05–14:45 Wednesday, 1 May 2019
Nielsen presents: Fun with Kafka, Spark, and offset management
Data Engineering and Architecture, Expo Hall
 Location: Expo Hall 2 (Capital Hall N24)
Secondary topics:  AI and Data technologies in the cloud, Media, Marketing, Advertising, Streaming and realtime analytics
Simona Meriam (Nielsen)
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Simona Meriam explains how Nielsen Marketing Cloud (NMC) used to manage its Kafka consumer offsets against Spark-Kafka 0.8 consumer and why the company decided to upgrade from Spark-Kafka 0.8 to 0.10 consumer. Simona reviews the problems encountered during the upgrade and details the process that led to the solution. Read more.