What You'll Learn:

Peanut Butter and Jelly should watch out, because a new power combination is in town: Spark and Cassandra. In the first half of this talk we’ll quickly touch on the fundamentals of these  two technologies and how they complement each other. We will walk through short examples using the OSS Spark-Cassandra connector that show how easy it is to run complicated distributed jobs using this framework. Common C* tasks become simple when we utilize spark.The second half of the talk will be dedicated to using Spark-Streaming with Cassandra. Distributing streaming presents a great new paradigm for getting analytics on your data as it flows into your application. We’ll walk through an example Spark Streaming application with a Custom Receiver that seamlessly integrates into Apache C*.