Virtusapolaris holds Big Data Meetup
The Big Data Meetup, organised by Virtusapolaris, is a quarterly forum, where the industry professionals discuss the latest findings in big data tools and technologies and network.
The event attracts a diverse crowd of like-minded individuals across industries and academia with the single passion of handling big data.
This quarter, the forum moved away from the conceptual use of big data to the actual practicality of big data handling with the topic being ‘Digging into Big Data with Google’s Bigquery and Apache Spark’.
Duosoftware Team Lead Sajeetharan Sinnathurai delivered a session on Google Bigquery, which is a petabyte scale, low-cost analytics data warehouse owned by Google. The second session of the evening was conducted by Pearson Lanka Senior Software Engineer Dedunu Dhananjaya, who delivered a session on Apache Spark, which is an open source framework that enables faster big data operations.
The meetup was conducted by Microsoft MVP and dinesql Founder/principal Architect Dinesh Priyankara and Microsoft MVP and Virtusapolaris Senior Architect Dinesh Asanka.