SMACK Stack @ Nitro Roland Tritsch is a 50% software engineer, 50% manager/builder of organizations, and 50% seller/implementer of ideas. He previously worked at IONA and Cyclist and is a father and husband. Nitro is changing the way the world works with documents by making it easy to create, edit, share, sign and collaborate both online and offline. They are moving to a SAAS model hosted on bare metal and cloud servers, powered by machine learning, data analytics and natural language processing. Nitro's technology is based on the SMACK stack of Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra and Kafka. The SMACKED stack involves