Big Data LDN 2018

GridGain technology evangelist Akmal Chaudhri will be one of the featured speakers at Big Data LDN 2018, November 13-14 in London.

Big Data LDN is a free-to-attend conference and exhibition where delegates discuss the big questions and share ideas with forward-thinking peers and leading members of the Data community. Hear from 130 expert speakers in 8 technical and business-led conference tracks, including real world use-cases and discuss your business requirements with 100 leading technology vendors and consultants.

Akmal's talk is titled:

"HOW TO BECOME A BIG DATA ROCKSTAR IN 30 MINUTES!"

The secret? Apache Ignite! Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform. It is designed for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory performance at scale.

In this presentation attendees will learn about some of the key capabilities of Ignite, such as:

* Turbocharging SQL queries when working with existing Relational database systems
* Sharing data and state across multiple Spark jobs using RDDs and DataFrames
* Using Ignite’s Machine Learning library for Data Science
* Easing DevOps dilemmas by using Ignite with Kubernetes

Attendees will also learn how to download and install Ignite and start to be productive in under 5 minutes.

At the end of this session, attendees will have a solid understanding of Ignite and its rich features and capabilities.