On 12/12, we held our Spark meetup at IBM, called Winter 3x30. Those are the slides I used for both introducing the state of our community, TASM (Triangle Apache Spark Meetup) as well as a Spark Summit Europe Wrap Up.
9. Quick Survey
๏ Introduction
๏ Who is a Java developer?
๏ Who uses Spark?
๏ Who uses Python with Spark?
๏ Who uses Scala with Spark?
๏ Who uses Java with Spark?
14. Logistics
๏ October 24-26 2017
๏ The Convention Center Dublin, Ireland
๏ About 1200 attendees
๏ 3 tutorials
๏ 5 tracks on day 1: developer, data science, technical deep dives, and
data engineering
๏ 6 tracks on day 2: developer, Spark ecosystem, AI, sponsored
sessions, research, and enterprise
๏ Introduced levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced