7th edition
Geek Night is a regular event to promote the sharing of technical knowledge and increase collaboration among the geeks in the National Capital Region (Delhi). It is organized by a passionate group of programmers and sponsored by Thoughtworks.
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Geek Night Volunteers
4:00 - 5:00 pm
Rekindling the Spark in Big Data
This talk will take a closer look at the Spark framework, review some of the core concepts like DataFrame, RDDs, & streaming, and examine how it actually supports a variety of data sets and sources. This understanding will serve as foundation for the following workshop.
By: Achal Aggarwal & Syed Atif Akhtar
Resources: Apache Spark
5:00 - 6:30 pm
Playing with Spark
In this workshop, we look at the use case of sentiment analysis over a Twitter stream and how Spark helps us perform real-time analytics on a continuous stream of data. Familiarity with the Java technology stack will be a key requirement for this session.
By: The Olga Union
6:30 - 7:00 pm
Say Hello to Kafka
This session introduces Apache Kafka, a distributed, real-time data system that functions like a pub/sub messaging service, but with higher throughput, built-in partitioning, replication, and fault tolerance.
By: Abhishek Khare
Resources: Apache Kafka
7:15 pm
Networking & Dinner
(served at our premises)