sfspark.org: Building Your First Spark & Cassandra Application w/ Russell Spitzer
ai.bythebay.io Nov 2025, Oakland, full-stack AI conference Scale By the Bay 2019 is held on November 13-15 in sunny Oakland, California, on the shores of Lake Merritt: https://scale.bythebay.io. Join us!
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Not sure where to start with Cassandra and Spark? Together let’s walk through starting your first Spark Application. We’ll walk through the setting up your IDE and integration tests, everything you need to build your first scalable and distributed Spark App. Learn how to use embedded Cassandra and Spark to write your own tests which are easily debuggable in standard IDEs. This will be a short but interactive adventure! Feel free to bring your own laptop and come code along!
We will be using IDEA along with the template provided by Datastax
About Russell Spitzer: After earning his Ph.D in bioinformatics from UCSF, Russell Spitzer took his love of big data to DataStax. There he has worked on all aspects of integrating Cassandra with other Apache technologies like Spark, Hadoop and Solr. Now his main focus on the integration of Cassandra with Apache Spark via the Spark Cassandra Connector. -------