Apache Ignite community update for the week of March 19

[Tom Diederich <to...@gridgain.com>]

Hello Igniters! 

Akmal Chaudhri is in Atlanta this week for a mini-Meetup tour evangelizing Apache Ignite. He just wrapped the OpenIoT Summit North America in Portland last week, where his popular session demonstrated data streaming to an Apache Ignite cluster from embedded devices and real-time data processing with Apache Spark.

Also last week, and in the photo, Fotios Filacouris spoke at the NYC In-Memory Computing Meetup, where he walked attendees through a few reference architectures on various use cases that have benefited from using Apache Ignite. The room was filled to capacity in an open Manhattan office donated by WeWork via a pilot program with Meetup.com, which the company purchased last November. WeWork is building a worldwide network of co-working offices and apartments.

Here’s a look at this week

Monday
Our technology evangelist will speak at the first of his scheduled three meetups this evening. That meetup is called, Big Bang Data Science & Analytics Solutions.

Its members are obsessed with data science and Akmal's talk won't disappoint. He'll unpack some of Apache Ignite's main components (the Compute Grid, Data Grid and the Machine Learning Grid) and then, through examples, explain how Apache Ignite can be used for data analysis.

Tuesday
March 20 is the first day of Spring and two of our experts will be speaking at events some 5,000 miles apart. 

In Georgia, Akmal will be speaking at the Atlanta Apache Spark User Group. This session will demonstrate how to easily share state in-memory across multiple Spark jobs, either within the same application or between different Spark applications using an implementation of the Spark RDD abstraction provided in Apache Ignite

During the talk, Akmal will demonstrate how IgniteRDD — an implementation of native Spark RDD and DataFrame APIs — shares the state of the RDD across other Spark jobs, applications and workers. Examples will show how IgniteRDD allows execution of SQL queries many times faster than native Spark RDDs or Data Frames due to its advanced in-memory indexing capabilities.

Meanwhile, at the Moscow Apache Ignite Meetup, engineer Artem Schitow will unveil what’s new in Apache Ignite 2.4. Next up, architect Alexey Goncharuk will demonstrate the art of sizing Apache Ignite clusters (delivered at the architect level). My colleague in Moscow Kseniya Romanova organized and will also serve as MC at both events. Great job, Kseniya!

 Wednesday
Akmal concludes his visit to Atlanta with a talk at the DevOpsATL Meetup about distributed databases and Kubernetes. In his presentation, Akmal will show attendees how Kubernetes can orchestrate a distributed database like Apache Ignite, in particular:

     •        Cluster Assembling - database nodes auto-discovery in Kubernetes.

     •        Database Resilience - automated horizontal scalability.

     •        Database Availability - what's the role of Kubernetes and the database.

     •        Utilizing both RAM and disk - set up Apache Ignite in a way to get in-memory performance with the durability of disk.


That’s all for this update.

Tom