Join us for an interactive Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on the latest advancements in Apache Spark 4, including Spark Connect — the new client-server architecture enabling seamless integration with IDEs, notebooks and custom applications. Learn about performance improvements, enhanced APIs and best practices for leveraging Spark’s next-generation features. Whether you're a data engineer, Spark developer or big data enthusiast, bring your questions on architecture, real-world use cases and how these innovations can optimize your workflows. Don’t miss this chance to dive deep into the future of distributed computing with Spark!
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Jules S. Damji
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Staff Developer Advocate
Anyscale Inc
Jules S. Damji is a developer advocate at Databricks, a contributor to MLflow and Apache Spark, and coauthor of Learning Spark, 2nd Edition. A hands-on developer with more than 25 years of experience, he has built large-scale distributed systems at Sun Microsystems, Netscape, @Home, Opsware/LoudCloud, VeriSign, ProQuest, Hortonworks, Anyscale, and Databricks. He holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computer science from Oregon State University and Cal State, Chico, respectively, and an MA in political advocacy and communication from Johns Hopkins University.
Bio from: Data Council 2023
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