Gateway Software Symposium
April 7 - 8, 2017
Putting a Spark in your Applications
Friday - Apr 7 4:45 PM CDT - BELLERIVE
Distributed and parallel computing have been around for a while. The problem is not new, but solutions have generally been complex. Over the years several solutions have come along to ease the pain. Spark is a wonderful programming API and a tool that can ease the pain of creating distributed, high concurrent, performing code.
In this presentation we will take an example oriented approach to creating applications that make use of Spark. We will learn how to create the code to use Spark, how to configure and manage the number of threads, and how to distribute the computations.
Venkat Subramaniam
Founder @ Agile Developer, Inc.
About Venkat Subramaniam
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.
He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.
Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.