Visit us atMetisin New York City on Wednesday, December 2 at 6:30pm to see a Hadoop & Spark presentation by Dorothy Kucar, a senior software engineer currently working with distributed computing paradigms in digital advertising.

Enjoy pizza and drinks as Dorothy demonstrates the function and importance ofHadoop & Spark,the work-horses of distributed computing in the business world today, and fields questions about her new evening class at Metis beginning January 19 titled Big Data Processing with Hadoop and Spark.

Distributed computing is necessary because of the sheer volume of data (on the order of many terabytes or petabytes, in some cases), and it cannot fit into the memory of a single machine. Hadoop and Spark are both open source frameworks for distributed computing. Working with the two frameworks will provides the tools to deal efficiently with datasets that are too large to be processed on a single machine.

6:30 - 7:00Register, Mingle, Eat & Drink
7:00 - 7:30Instructor Dorothy Kucar presents
7:30 - 8:00Chat with Dorothy, attendees, Metis staff and enjoy more food & drink

Dorothy Kucar
Metis Hadoop & Spark Instructor
Senior Software Engineer

Dorothy Kucar is a senior software engineer working in digital advertising. She started off as an academic at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and found her way to the IBM T.J. Watson research lab where she worked in computer hardware design for several years. More recently she switched gears to software, where she is currently enjoying working with distributed computing paradigms in digital advertising. Dorothy has a BMath in Applied Mathematics and a PhD. in Electrical Engineering, both from the University of Waterloo. Dorothy is heavily involved in the NYC area outdoors community: she and her friends run the largest outdoors Meetup group in the Northeast. Shes also been on a segment ofThe Today Showon NBC!

Connect with us before the event:@thisismetis