Big Data SMACK: A Guide to Apache Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, and Kafka

Abstract

Rogelio Vizcaino has been a programming professionally for ten years, and hacking a little longer than that. Currently he is a JEE and solutions architect on a consultancy basis for one of the major banking institutions in his country. Educated as an electronic systems engineer, performance and footprint are more than “desirable treats” in software to him. Ironically, the once disliked tasks in database maintenance became his mainstay skills through much effort in the design and development of both relational and non-relational databases since the start of his professional practice—and the good luck of finding great masters to work with during the journey. With most of his experience in the enterprise financial sector, Vizcaino’s heart is with the Web. He keeps track of web-related technologies and standards, where he discovered the delights of programming back in the late 1990s. Vizcaino considers himself a programmer before an architect, engineer, or developer; “programming” is an all-encompassing term and should be used with pride. Above all, he likes to learn, to create new things, and to fix broken ones