SMACK Stack 1.0 has been Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra and Kafka working into different cohesive systems delivering different solutions for different use cases. Haven't heard about it before? Oh man! Where have you been? https://www.google.com/search?q=smack+stack+1.0
SMACK Stack 1.1 we go a step further Streaming, Mesos, Analytics, Cassandra and Kafka and Joe Stein will walk through in detail some of the different viable options for Streaming and Analytics with Mesos, Kafka and Cassandra.