Stream Processing with Apache Spark: Mastering Structured Streaming and Spark Streaming

Gerard Maas is a Principal Engineer at Lightbend, where he works on the seamless integration of Structured Streaming and other scalable stream processing technologies into the Lightbend Platform. Previously, he worked at a cloud-native IoT startup, where he led the data processing team on building the streaming pipelines that pushed Spark Streaming to its limits in terms of throughput. Back then, he published the first comprehensive guide to tune Spark Streaming performance.

Gerard has held leading roles at several startups and large enterprises, building data science governance, cloud-native IoT platforms, telecom platforms, and scalable APIs. He is a regular speaker at technology conferences and contributes to small and large open source projects. Gerard has a degree in Computer Engineering from the Simón Bolívar University, Venezuela. You can find him on twitter as @maasg.

François Garillot is based in Seattle, where he works on distributed computing at Facebook. He received a Ph.D. from École Polytechnique in 2011, and worked on Spark Streaming's back-pressure while working at Lightbend in 2015. His interests include type systems, leveraging programming languages to make analytics simpler to express, and a passion for Scala, Spark, and roasted arabica. When not at work, he can be found enjoying the mountains of the Pacific Northwest.