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September 11, 2018: Training & Tutorials
September 12–13, 2018: Keynotes & Sessions
New York, NY
Anya Bida

Anya Bida
Senior Member of the Technical Staff (SRE), Salesforce

Anya Bida is a senior member of the technical staff (SRE) at Salesforce. She’s also a co-organizer of the SF Big Analytics meetup group and is always looking for ways to make platforms more scalable, cost efficient, and secure. Previously, Anya worked at Alpine Data, where she focused on Spark operations.

Sessions

11:20am–12:00pm Thursday, 09/13/2018
Understanding Spark tuning with auto-tuning; or, Magical spells to stop your pager going off at 2:00am
Location: 1A 21/22 Level: Intermediate
Holden Karau (Independent), Rachel B Warren (Salesforce Einstein), Anya Bida (Salesforce)
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Apache Spark is an amazing distributed system, but part of the bargain we've made with the infrastructure deamons involves providing the correct set of magic numbers (aka tuning) or our jobs may be eaten by Cthulhu. Holden Karau, Rachel Warren, and Anya Bida explore auto-tuning jobs using systems like Apache BEAM, Mahout, and internal Spark ML jobs as workloads. Read more.