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Maciej Arciuch

Dec 17 2014

Big Data Spain 2014 review

Big Data Spain is an annual conference on Big Data and related topics held in the suburbs of Madrid. This year’s, i.e. third, edition has so far been the biggest; it has attracted more than 500 guests and various speakers including Big Data celebrities like Paco Nathan of Databricks. During two days of the conference, guests could attend many keynotes, speeches and workshops and learn about variuos products, services and specific use-cases, in both English and Spanish. Allegro was represented by two employees with a presentation on Hadoop pitfalls and gotchas.

Maciej Arciuch

Maciek works at Allegro on developing a scalable, distributed data collection and analysis system. Former Java EE developer, now a Scala, Spark and functional programming enthusiast.