Events

Apache Cassandra Lunch #38: Reading Cassandra SSTables in Apache Spark

Apache Cassandra Lunch #38: Reading Cassandra SSTables in Apache Spark

On this installment of our weekly Cassandra Lunch, we will discuss a new utility that connects Spark and Cassandra. This tool works by reading Cassandra SSTables directly into a Spark context. This is one of the Data Operations in Cassandra mentioned in Cassandra Lunch 35.

Data Engineer's Lunch #12: Introduction to sed for Data Engineering

Data Engineer's Lunch #12: Introduction to sed for Data Engineering

At this week's edition of our Data Engineer's Lunch, we will introduce sed, a stream editor, for data engineering. A stream editor is used to perform basic text transformations on an input stream (a file or input from a pipeline). We will also have a demonstration to show some examples of how we can use a command-line tool like sed.

Apache Cassandra Lunch #37: CQL Copy for Data Operations

Apache Cassandra Lunch #37: CQL Copy for Data Operations

In this week's edition of our weekly Cassandra Lunch, we will cover a CQL Copy for Data Operations, which includes a demo of how to export Cassandra data as CSV and import data from CSV. We will also touch on things such as JSON.

Apache Cassandra Lunch #36: Specialized Databases On Cassandra

Apache Cassandra Lunch #36: Specialized Databases On Cassandra

In this week's edition of our weekly Cassandra Lunch, we cover 18 different databases over 3 categories (Timeseries, Graph, Miscellaneous) that use Apache Cassandra for storage.

Data Engineer's Lunch #11 - Apache Spark Companion Technologies: MLFlow

Data Engineer's Lunch #11 - Apache Spark Companion Technologies: MLFlow

Join us for another installment of our weekly Data Engineer's Lunch, hosted every Monday at 12 PM EST. This week's edition is Part 5 of our series on technologies that work together with Apache Spark. We will be covering MLFlow, a tool by Databricks for managing and cataloging machine learning workflows. We hope you will be able to join us!

Apache Cassandra Lunch #35: Data Operations with Spark and Cassandra

Apache Cassandra Lunch #35: Data Operations with Spark and Cassandra

In this week's edition of our weekly Cassandra Lunch, we cover a few different data operations, which include: using Spark to take data from one Cassandra table, transforming it, and writing it into another Cassandra table, and deleting data from Cassandra tables using Spark.

Data Engineer's Lunch #10 - NoSQL Databases - Part 1

Data Engineer's Lunch #10 - NoSQL Databases - Part 1

In Data Engineer’s Lunch #10: NoSQL - Part 1, we discussed NoSQL datastores. Specifically, we discussed different types of key-value stores.

Apache Cassandra Lunch #34: Liquibase and Cassandra

Apache Cassandra Lunch #34: Liquibase and Cassandra

In this week's edition of our weekly Cassandra Lunch, we discuss how to use Liquibase with Cassandra and DataStax Astra including a live demo.

Data Engineer's Lunch #9 - Open Source & Cloud Data Catalogs

Data Engineer's Lunch #9 - Open Source & Cloud Data Catalogs

In Data Engineer’s Lunch #9: Open Source & Cloud Data Catalogs, we discussed data catalogs, which help users keep track of data.

Apache Cassandra Lunch #33: Cassandra Deployment – Ansible and Terraform with Cassandra

Apache Cassandra Lunch #33: Cassandra Deployment – Ansible and Terraform with Cassandra

In Cassandra Lunch #33, we will be covering automation for Cassandra deployment. We will discuss using Terraform and Ansible to set up the infrastructure for and handle the provisioning of a new Cassandra cluster.

Data Engineer's Lunch #8 - SQL Databases Part 2

Data Engineer's Lunch #8 - SQL Databases Part 2

In Data Engineer’s Lunch #8: SQL Databases part 2, we continued our discussion of relational concepts, popular SQL databases, and advantages and disadvantages. We also discuss Cloud Databases and database tools compatible with SQL databases.

Data Engineer's Lunch #7 - SQL Databases

Data Engineer's Lunch #7 - SQL Databases

In Data Engineer’s Lunch #7: SQL Databases, we discuss relational concepts including the history of RDBMS, the general need for SQL databases, rules of design, and normalization. We also discuss popular SQL databases, and their advantages and disadvantages.

WEBINAR: Databricks and DataStax Astra: Running a Databricks Notebook Against Astra

WEBINAR: Databricks and DataStax Astra: Running a Databricks Notebook Against Astra

This webinar is Part 2 of our Databricks and DataStax Astra series. In Part 1, we discussed how to connect Databricks and DataStax Astra using the Databricks Community Edition. In Part 2, we will expand upon Part 1 and take a deeper look at Databricks notebooks and features. We will create a notebook that will extract data from our Astra database, transform it, and write it back into Astra while also exploring features that Databricks provides in the Community Edition.

WEBINAR: Databricks and DataStax Astra: Connecting Databricks and DataStax Astra

WEBINAR: Databricks and DataStax Astra: Connecting Databricks and DataStax Astra | Tuesday December 22 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

This webinar is Part 1 of our Databricks and DataStax Astra series. In Part 1, we will discuss how to connect Databricks and DataStax Astra using the Databricks Community Edition, and also verify the connection with a quick check using a Databricks notebook. We will discuss the nuances that occur in connecting Databricks and DataStax Astra that you may not encounter when connecting open-source Apache Spark and DataStax Astra, so be sure to tune in.

WEBINAR: Apache Spark Companion Technologies: Distributed ML Frameworks

WEBINAR: Apache Spark Companion Technologies: Distributed ML Frameworks | Thursday December 17 at 10:30 AM | Online Event

This webinar is Part 4 in our series on technologies that work together with Apache Spark. We will be covering distributed versions of popular machine learning libraries. Databricks offers a way to make use of Spark's distributed computing capabilities alongside familiar machine learning libraries, and we will try to connect those with base Apache Spark instead.

WEBINAR: Apache Spark Companion Technologies: Data Lakes

WEBINAR: Apache Spark Companion Technologies: Data Lakes | Tuesday December 15 at 10:30 AM | Online Event

In the third part of our discussion of technologies that work with Apache Spark, we will be covering data lakes. Data lakes are for long term data storage. Databricks offers data lake integration as well as Delta Lake, a utility for managing connections to data lakes. In part 2, we discussed connecting spark to notebooks. Part 1 was an overview of the different Databricks features that we will try to replicate in this series.

WEBINAR: Counting in Datastax Enterprise

WEBINAR: Counting in Datastax Enterprise | Monday November 30 at 12:00 PM | Online Event

In this webinar we will discuss a number of different ways to get row counts in Datastax Enterprise. We will also review inbuilt aggregation as well as Spark SQL integrations, as well as potential counters and UDAs. This webinar will include a short demo of this material. We hope to see you there!

WEBINAR: Running a Spark Job on DataStax Astra

WEBINAR: Running a Spark Job on DataStax Astra | Tuesday November 24 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

Following our previous webinar in this series, Connecting Apache Spark and DataStax Astra, we will be discussing how to run a Spark job on DataStax Astra with a live demo using Gitpod, Spark-Submit, SBT, and Scala. We hope to see you there!

WEBINAR: Apache Spark Companion Technologies: Notebooks

WEBINAR: Apache Spark Companion Technologies: Notebooks | Thursday November 19 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

In this webinar, we will discuss connecting to Apache Spark using notebooks. This is part of our series on attempting to replicate the functionality of Databricks using open source technologies. This webinar will contain a discussion of notebook tools and also some discussion of PySpark and the functionality of Spark Core. We hope to see you there!

WEBINAR: Connecting Apache Spark and DataStax Astra

WEBINAR: Connecting Apache Spark and DataStax Astra | Tuesday November 17 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

Join us for a live demo where we will review how to connect Apache Spark and DataStax Astra using Gitpod and Spark-Shell.

WEBINAR: Databricks and Apache Spark

WEBINAR: Databricks and Apache Spark | Thursday October 29 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

Databricks is a cloud analytics platform built around Apache Spark. It provides many resources for data exploration and management. As well as providing access to Apache Sparks Spark Streaming and MLLib capabilities Databricks notebook functionality also provides access through Spark's interfaces with various programming languages, including R, Python, and SQL. In this webinar, we will discuss some of the functionality that Databricks provides and how that compares to available Apache Spark libraries or cluster functionality.

WEBINAR: Exploring DataStax Astra's GraphQL API

WEBINAR: Exploring DataStax Astra's GraphQL API | Tuesday October 27 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

In this webinar, we will introduce and explore DataStax Astra's GraphQL API. The DataStax Astra GraphQL API allows us to easily interact with our data using GraphQL types, queries, and mutations. For every table in our keyspace, a series of GraphQL objects are generated, along with queries and mutations that allow us to search and modify the table data.

WEBINAR: Exploring DataStax Astra's REST API

WEBINAR: Exploring DataStax Astra's REST API | Tuesday October 20 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

In this webinar, we will introduce and explore DataStax Astra's REST API. We can use the REST API that Astra provides to create, update, and delete tables, columns, and rows in our Astra keyspace.

#Boss: Going It Alone in Data Science

#Boss: Going It Alone in Data Science | Thursday October 15 at 5:30 PM | Online Event

Have you considered striking out on your own as an independent consultant, solopreneur, or founder? Join us during Data Week DC 2020 (https://www.dataweekdc.com/) to learn from four Data Community DC leaders who answered this question with a resounding yes! They’ll share their origin stories, professional highlights, lessons learned and advice for those considering taking the leap—including how DC2 can be a tool in your arsenal as you build your business and brand.

WEBINAR: Monitoring Cassandra with DSE OpsCenter

WEBINAR: Monitoring Cassandra with DSE OpsCenter | Thursday October 15 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

DSE OpsCenter monitors and manages instances of Datastax Enterprise. It is composed of two parts OpsCenter Monitoring and OpsCenter Lifecycle Manager. In this webinar we will cover some of the monitoring tools provided by OpsCenter Monitor including the monitoring dashboard, alerts, and historical metrics.

WEBINAR: Cassandra as a Service in the Cloud: Astra, Keyspaces, and Cosmos DB

WEBINAR: Cassandra as a Service in the Cloud: Astra, Keyspaces, and Cosmos DB | Thursday September 24 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

In this webinar, we will discuss 3 different ways you can do Cassandra in the cloud. We will introduce and discuss the differences between DataStax Astra, AWS Keyspaces, and Microsoft Cosmos DB. We will also demo how to get started with these services if you want to learn how to quickly spin up a database in the cloud!

Intro to Datastax Enterprise Graph

WEBINAR: Intro to Datastax Enterprise Graph | Wednesday September 23 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

DSE Graph is a NoSQL database tool that is optimized for storing objects and their relationships similar to the graph data structure used in graph theory. In this webinar, we will introduce and learn some of the basics of DSE graph.

WEBINAR: Getting Started with Terraform and Kubernetes on AWS Part 2

WEBINAR: Getting Started with Terraform and Kubernetes on AWS Part 2 | Tuesday September 22 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

In the first part of this series, we introduced you to Terraform and walked you through how to get started using the tool on AWS. In this webinar, we'll continue that demo and walk you through launching a Kubernetes cluster.

WEBINAR: Open Source BI Tools and Cassandra: Doing SQL and Reporting on Cassandra

WEBINAR: Open Source BI Tools and Cassandra: Doing SQL and Reporting on Cassandra | Thursday September 17 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

In this webinar, we will wrap up our “Doing SQL and Reporting on Apache Cassandra with Open Source Tools” series. We will cover BI tools like Metabase, Redash, and Apache Superset with a demonstration using Metabase with the Presto connector to connect with Cassandra. If you missed parts 1-3 of this series, they are linked below. Part 1 may be helpful since we will be using Presto in this webinar’s demo!

WEBINAR: Spark and Cassandra for Machine Learning: Model Deployment

WEBINAR: Spark and Cassandra for Machine Learning: Model Deployment | Wednesday September 16 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

In Part 6 of our series on Machine Learning with Spark and Cassandra, we will be discussing model deployment. At the end of our machine learning process, we end up with a trained and tested model that we are sure performs to our requirements. Deployment is the process by which that model is made to do the actual processing that it was designed for.

WEBINAR: Introduction to Ansible

WEBINAR: Introduction to Ansible | Tuesday September 15 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

In this webinar, we are going to introduce you to Ansible, an automation tool that can transform how your company operates. We will cover what it is, how and why it is used then we'll walk you through a quick demo to demonstrate usefulness and simplicity.

WEBINAR: Open Source Notebooks and Cassandra

WEBINAR: Open Source Notebooks and Cassandra | Thursday August 27 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

Join us on August 27th 2020, for a webinar focused on open source notebooks that you can use to do SQL on Cassandra. If you are working with Cassandra in any capacity, we believe you will find this webinar very informative. Registration is limited so please register ASAP. We hope to see you there!

WEBINAR: Spark and Cassandra for Machine Learning: Model Selection Tests

WEBINAR: Spark and Cassandra for Machine Learning: Model Selection Tests | Wednesday August 26 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

This is Part 5 of our series on Machine Learning with Spark and Cassandra. This time, we will be discussing model-selections tests, which are used to dertermine which of two trained machine learning models performs better on our datasets. The point of model selection tests is to predict which model will generalize better to unsees data and thus comparisons of single test results are not enough.

WEBINAR: Running Cassandra on Kubernetes with Terraform

WEBINAR: Running Cassandra on Kubernetes with Terraform | Tuesday August 25 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

In this webinar, I'll be combining my two previous webinars together and walking you through how to run Cassandra on Kubernetes. If you would like to take some time and view previously hosted webinars, please visit our Anant YouTube playlists and check out "Webinars". We hope you'll be able to join us!

WEBINAR: Getting Started with Terraform and Kubernetes on AWS

WEBINAR: Getting Started with Terraform and Kubernetes on AWS | Thursday August 20 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

In this webinar, I'll introduce you to using Terraform to spin up a Kubernetes cluster on Amazon's Web Services. We will be creating an EKS cluster and an auto-scaling group of workers for the cluster. If you're interested in Terraform, this webinar will be beneficial to you. We hope to see you there!

WEBINAR: Spark and Cassandra

WEBINAR: Spark and Cassandra | Wednesday August 19 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

In this webinar, we will introduce Spark and give some background information about what it is and what it can do. We will also discuss how to connect Spark to Cassandra for users who want to use Spark to do SQL queries on a NoSQL database like Cassandra.

WEBINAR: Spark and Cassandra for Machine Learning: Cross-Validation

WEBINAR: Spark and Cassandra for Machine Learning: Cross-Validation | Tuesday August 18 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

Cross validation is a collection of methods for repeated training and testing of our machine learning models, in order to learn more than simple testing can tell us. These tests can help us tune our model parameters before any final evaluation takes place and we try to move forwards to deployment. We are planning to cover: Train/Test/Validation Split, K-Fold Cross-Validation, Leave One Out Cross-Validation, and Nested Cross-Validation.

WEBINAR: Spark and Cassandra for Machine Learning: Testing/Validation

WEBINAR: Spark and Cassandra for Machine Learning: Testing/Validation | Thursday July 30 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

Testing and validation are important parts of any machine learning process. The basics may seem obvious, but specific testing schemes and validation strategies can help ensure that you are getting the most out of your data while preventing you from creating models that are useless on your real data. The previous installments in this webinar (found at blog.anant.us) discussed data pre-processing methods. This installment focuses on how we test the efficacy of our machine learning models and tells us how well they might generalize to real data.

WEBINAR: Presto and Cassandra

WEBINAR: Presto and Cassandra | Wednesday July 29 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

In this webinar, we will introduce Presto and give some background information about what it is and what it can do. We will also discuss how to connect Presto to Cassandra for users who want to use Presto to do SQL queries on a NoSQL database like Cassandra.

WEBINAR: Getting Started with Terraform & Cassandra on AWS

WEBINAR: Getting Started with Terraform & Cassandra on AWS | Tuesday July 28 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

This is going to be a webinar introducing you to Terraform and how you can use it to spin up an Apache Cassandra instance on AWS. We'll going over the basics of this this infrastructure software to show you the potential it has when it comes to maintaining and deploying your environments.

WEBINAR: Netlify Serverless Lambda Functions Vs. Cloud Functions for Firebase

WEBINAR: Netlify Serverless Lambda Functions Vs. Cloud Functions for Firebase| Friday June 26 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

During this webinar, we will overview and compare Netlify Serverless Lambda functions with Firebase cloud functions. We hope to see you there!

WORKSHOP: Building a REST API with Cassandra using Python and Node

WORKSHOP: Building a REST API with Cassandra using Python and Node| Wednesday June 24 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM| Online Event

REST API’s have been used for years to create easy to use and flexible application interfaces that don’t require verbose language or heavy objects to operate. In this 2 hour workshop we’ll combine the ease of REST with the power of Apache Cassandra and bring you through the process of creating a REST API for Cassandra using Python and NodeJS languages. Packed with fully online hands-on exercises you’ll be able to jump right in to level-up your game.

WEBINAR: Generating CRUD Swagger API Docs on Gitpod with Node.js, and Express

WEBINAR: Generating CRUD Swagger API Docs on Gitpod with Node.js, and Express| Tuesday June 23 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

In this webinar, we will discuss how to generate Swagger API docs for CRUD operations using basic endpoints written in Node.js with the Express.js framework. We will demo this on Gitpod, which is an online open-source IDE based on Eclipse Theia.

WEBINAR: Spark and Cassandra for Machine Learning: Data Preprocessing

WEBINAR: Spark and Cassandra for Machine Learning: Data Preprocessing| Monday June 22 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

Join us as we walk through the first actual step on the road to a complete machine learning model, dealing with our data. We will learn about how to load data into our training environment as well as some of the different ways that data may have to be manipulated before we can use it to train our models.

WEBINAR: Building a Marketing Site Using ButterCMS Pt. 1

WEBINAR: Building a Marketing Site Using ButterCMS Pt. 1| Thursday Jun 18 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

In this webinar, we’ll cover what a headless CMS is, and why it’s increasingly popular. We’ll take a look at how it stacks up against a traditional CMS, so you can weigh which kind of CMS is right for your business needs.

WEBINAR: Become a Sitecore Entrepreneur by Partnering with Studios

WEBINAR: Become a Sitecore Entrepreneur by Partnering with Studios| Thursday May 21 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

Join Sitecore MVP, Eric Ramseur, in a discussion on becoming a Sitecore Entrepreneur. Learn from past and current engagement experiences to discover new methods to elevate your career. Ask questions to plan for the future of working in Sitecore.

WEBINAR: Building Node & Python REST APIs w/ Cassandra on Gitpod and Datastax Astra

WEBINAR: Building Node & Python REST APIs w/ Cassandra on Gitpod and Datastax Astra| Thursday May 07 at 6:30 PM | Online Event

DataStax Astra provides the ability to develop and deploy data-driven applications with a cloud-native service, without the hassles of database and infrastructure administration. In this webinar, we are going to walk you through creating a REST API and exposing that to your Cassandra database. We hope to see you there!

WEBINAR: Creating a REST API with Datastax Astra Cassandra as a Service

WEBINAR: Creating a REST API with Datastax Astra Cassandra as a Service | Thursday April 30 at 6:30 PM | Online Event

DataStax Astra provides the ability to develop and deploy data-driven applications with a cloud-native service, without the hassles of database and infrastructure administration. In this webinar, we are going to walk you through creating a REST API and exposing that to your Cassandra database. We hope to see you there!

WEBINAR: Deliver the Sitecore Platform like an Award Winning Production

WEBINAR: Deliver the Sitecore Platform like an Award Winning Production| Friday April 24 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

Join Sitecore MVP, Eric Ramseur from ANANT Corp for a discussion on selling and delivering Sitecore in a Movie Studio Approach. Attendees will review current Sitecore Business Development strategies and discuss ways to chart the Future of Work in the Sitecore Industry. Please RSVP to ensure your spot in our webinar!!

WEBINAR: How to Recruit a Sitecore Professional

WEBINAR: How to Recruit a Sitecore Professional | Thursday March 19 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

Join Sitecore MVP, Eric Ramseur, in an important discussion on effectively recruiting a Sitecore Professional. We will discuss talent acquisition scenarios from the Sitecore Community and Identify ways Recruiters can provide the best value for our members and their clients. The audience for this webinar is obviously Recruiters however Sitecore Professionals, Consultants, and Community members are welcome to add value to the discussion.

WEBINAR: How Sitecore Helps Organizations with their Digital Transformation

WEBINAR: How Sitecore Helps Organizations with their Digital Transformation | Thursday February 27 at 6:00 PM | Online Event

Join Sitecore MVP Eric Ramseur for an online discussion on the ways in which Sitecore can improve customer experience and lead your organization's Digital Transformation. Learn from past experiences on licensing, feature development budgets, cloud deployments and more!! Get your questions answered so that your company can get the most return out of your investment.

Moving from a Relational Database to Cassandra: Why, Where, When and How

Moving from a Relational Database to Cassandra: Why, Where, When and How | Wednesday November 20 at 5:30 PM | Anant DC Office, 2315 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Suite 301, Washington, D.C. 20037

Join us on Wednesday, November 20th at 5:30 PM for an informative event focused on everything you need to know about moving from a relational database to Cassandra. We will be covering the why, where, when, and how.

Business Platform Strategy Breakfast

Business Platform Strategy Breakfast | Friday November 08 at 7:30 AM | Anant DC Office, 2315 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Suite 301, Washington, D.C. 20037

We'd love to have you join us on November 8th, 2019 from 7:30 AM to 8:45 AM for our monthly Business Platform Strategy Breakfast. This is a great opportunity to connect with other technology professionals and discuss ideas. We hope to see you there!

Moving from a Relational Database to Cassandra: Why, Where, When and How

Moving from a Relational Database to Cassandra: Why, Where, When and How | Tuesday October 22 at 5:30 PM | Live Webinar

Join us on Tuesday, October 22nd at 5:30 CT to learn everything you need to know about moving from a relational database to Cassandra. We will be covering the why, where, when, and how.

DataStax Graph Workshop and Hands-On Lab Got Graph?

DataStax Graph Workshop and Hands-On Lab Got Graph? Get More from Your Connected Data | Thursday October 3 at 12:00 PM | George Washington University, 1957 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20052, Room 113

DataStax experts are hosting a half-day workshop to learn how to get more value from your data by leveraging a relationship-first approach with a distributed graph database. Get an introduction to graph technology, followed by a technical hands-on lab session.

Business Platform Strategy Breakfast - Data Edition

Business Platform Strategy Breakfast - Data Edition | Friday October 4 at 7:30 AM | Anant DC Office, 3 Washington Circle NW, Suite 301, Washington, D.C. 20037

We’d love for you to join us for the Data Edition of our monthly Business Platform Strategy Breakfast! This is a great opportunity to meet other platform architects and discuss issues you're encountering.

How to Build a Multi-DC Cassandra Cluster in AWS w/ OpsCenter LCM

How to Build a Multi-DC Cassandra Cluster in AWS w/ OpsCenter LCM | Wednesday September 25 at 5:30 PM | Online Event

Learn how to implement the powerful NoSQL database Cassandra in the AWS cloud using the Datastax distribution and their Ops Center Lifecycle Management Software.

Survey of Real-time Data Platforms (Cassandra, Spark, Akka, Kafka, etc.)

Survey of Real-time Data Platforms (Cassandra, Spark, Akka, Kafka, etc.) | Thursday September 19 at 6:30 PM | Anant DC Office, 3 Washington Circle NW, Suite 301, Washington, D.C. 20037

Learn how to efficiently manage your data using the following Real-time data platforms: Cassandra, Spark, Akka, Kafka.

Datastax - Automation Training + Lunch

Datastax - Automation Training + Lunch | Tuesday September 17 at 12:00 PM | Anant DC Office, 3 Washington Circle NW, Suite 301, Washington, D.C. 20037

Interested in getting some hands-on experience with Datastax? Join us for our Datastax Automation Training!

Business Platform Strategy Breakfast

Business Platform Strategy Breakfast | Friday September 6 at 7:30 AM | Anant DC Office, 3 Washington Circle NW, Suite 301, Washington, D.C. 20037

We’d love for you to join us on August 30, 2019, from 7:30 AM to 8:45 AM for our monthly Business Platform Strategy Breakfast.

An Overview of Spreadsheet and CRM integrations with Zapier

An Overview of Spreadsheet and CRM Integrations with Zapier | Wednesday August 21 at 3:00 PM | Online Event

Join us for a quick demonstration on how to leverage Zapier to automate tasks that cost your company time and money.

Survey of Real-time Data Platforms (Cassandra, Spark, Akka, Kafka, etc.)

Survey of Real-time Data Platforms (Cassandra, Spark, Akka, Kafka, etc.) | Wednesday August 7 at 5:30 PM | Wavicle Data Solutions HQ

Learn how to efficiently manage your data using the following Real-time data platforms: Cassandra, Spark, Akka, Kafka.

How to Build a Multi-DC Cassandra Cluster in AWS w/ OpsCenter LCM

How to Build a Multi-DC Cassandra Cluster in AWS w/ OpsCenter LCM | Thursday August 1 at 6:30 PM | Phillips Hall

Learn how to implement the powerful NoSQL database Cassandra in the AWS cloud using the Datastax distribution and their Ops Center Lifecycle Management Software.

Datastax Accelerate

Datastax Accelerate | Thursday May 23 at 9:00 AM | Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, Maryland

Join us at the world’s premier Apache Cassandra™ conference to learn from your peers, industry experts, and community leaders about how you can transform modern enterprise applications on any cloud at scale.

Intelligent Graphs: A Look at the Future of Enterprise AI

Webinar - C# Corner Chicago Chapter | Saturday December 22 at 10:00 AM | Online Webinar

Rahul Singh has been working in the Internet IT industry for over 20 years and specializes in designing Digital Business Technology Platforms. His company specializes in creating and integrating Data & Analytics Platforms with Information Systems and Customer Experience Platforms. He has consulted to several large organizations such as McDonalds, Kroger, USPS, USPTO that use Apache Cassandra, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, and Apache Solr. Rahul will be showing the audience how to build large scale global data & analytics platforms that are needed by the fortune 500 and fast growing technology startups with millions or even billions of customers worldwide.

Intelligent Graphs: A Look at the Future of Enterprise AI

Meetup | Tuesday April 10 at 6:30 PM | George Washington University, Funger Hall, Room 108, 2201 G St. NW, Washington, DC

DVDC is happy to host its 1Q Roundup in partnership with our friends at Data Science DC (https://www.meetup.com/Data-Science-DC/), Columbia GraphDB (www.meetup.com/Columbia-GraphDB-MeetUp), GraphDB Baltimore-Washington (www.meetup.com/graphdb-baltimore/).

Data Modeling in Cassandra: Avoiding Tombstones, Wide Partitions, and Data Skew

Meetup | Tuesday February 20 at 7:00 PM | Eastern Foundry Rosslyn - 1100 Wilson Blvd, 10th Floor, Arlington, VA

Cassandra is the easiest big data (truly big data) open source database to get started with. Whether you are using Apache Cassandra or DataStax Enterprise Cassandra, there are some pitfalls that new Cassandra Developers/Admins/Architects end up making which are easy to avoid.

Data Wranglers DC - Data Processing for Machine Learning / AI / Natural Language Processing

Meetup | Tuesday February 13 at 6:00 PM | Eastern Foundry Rosslyn - 1100 Wilson Blvd, 10th Floor, Arlington, VA

In this meetup there will be a group of three speakers who will cover topics ranging from data wrangling for Natural Language Processing (NLP) to processing data for time-series analysis using machine learning, and harnessing crowd sourced data.

Co-Meetup - Data Wranglers/Cassandra­ DC - Indexing Options in Cassandra

Meetup | Thursday September 14 at 6:30 PM | Eastern Foundry Rosslyn - 1100 Wilson Blvd, 10th Floor, Arlington, VA

In this Meetup, we will look at the indexing options available in Apache Cassandra, and how indexes are created. Indexing options have greatly improved in the most recent versions of Cassandra. We will discuss when to use indexes and also when not to use them Performance considerations will be discussed.

COO Training - Supporting The Modern Business - Cloud / IoT / Big Data / Data Science

Workshop | Saturday September at 10:30 AM | Anant DC Office

Join Tom Meylan of Digital Clones and Rahul Singh of Anant to learn more about bringing people and technology together within an organization. Digital Clones develops system based training materials for high performance leadership teams. Anant provides modern enterprise consulting and data engineering experience, knowledge, and innovation to Internet Teams and Internet Software Teams.

Scaling Cloud Applications Using Docker

Meetup | Tuesday September 4 at 6:30 PM | Solution Street Herndon Office

In this talk, Rahul Singh, CEO at Anant Corporation, will give a presentation on Scaling Cloud Applications using Docker. He will cover the current popular technologies of Kafka, Spark, Cassandra, and Docker as a part of a growing landscape of distributed computing tools.

Weekend Cowork

Cowork | Saturday August 5 at 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM | Anant Labs, 1010 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Suite 250, Washington, DC

Want to get stuff done on a Saturday as it relates to your startup but don't have a subscription to a coworking space or don't like working in a Starbucks? Come by our office for a cowork session!

Data Processing for Search and Information Retrieval

Meetup | Tuesday July 18 at 6:30 PM | George Washington University, Funger Hall, Room 108, 2201 G St. NW, Washington, DC

Deploying machine learning onto enterprise search required an entire team of data scientists, developers and database experts to manage the complex machine learning algorithms and deploy them in search systems. Until now.

Data Wranglers DC - Data Wrangling & Visualization of Public / Government Data

Meetup | Tuesday May 9 at 6:30 PM | Eastern Foundry Rosslyn - 1100 Wilson Blvd, 10th Floor, Arlington, VA

This presentation provides an overview of how tools such as the National Water Information System (NWIS) can be used for continuous and discrete hydrologic data maintenance and exploratory analysis to better provide scientific views and insights at various resolutions.

Baltimore IIBA Chapter - Software Algebra

In-Person Presentation | Tuesday April 11 at 6:00 PM | UMBC Training Center, 6996 Columbia Gateway Drive, Suite #100

How to define and create business applications and systems in the modern era by connecting and assembling available online and open source tools.

WebTech Conference - Software Algebra

In-Person Presentation | Thursday March 30 at 5:30 PM | Iron Yard DC, 1341 G Street, Floor 2

WebTech is a 4-hour conference on web technology trends and techniques, specifically focused on the people who build, manage and design web properties.

Learning Docker - Containerizing Software, Platform & Infrastructure

In-Person Workshop | Saturday December 17 2016 at 9:30 AM | Anant Offices, 1010 Wisconsin Ave. NW #250, Washington, DC 20007

Data Wranglers DC - Data Processing with Zeppelin/ Solr / Spark / Nifi

Meetup | Wednesday December 14 2016 at 6:30 PM | George Washington University, Funger Hall, Room 108, 2201 G St. NW, Washington, DC

Data Wranglers DC Meetup - Integrating Real-Time Data - Spark and Kafka for Video and Data Stream Analysis

Meetup  |  Wednesday November 9 2016 from 6:30 pM to 8:00 PM (EDT) | ByteCubed Offices 2231 Crystal Drive, Suite 401, Arlington, VA 22202

Webinar: Organizing Business Information with Enterprise Search & Knowledge Management (B2B)

Webinar  |  Friday November 4 2016 from 10:00 AM to 10:50 AM (EDT) | Online Webinar

Webinar: Unifying Business Information with Portals and Dashboards (B2B)

Webinar  |  Friday October 14 2016 from 10:00 AM to 10:50 AM (EDT)  | Online Webinar

Data Wranglers DC Meetup - The Business Value of Data Wrangling

Meetup  |  Tuesday October 11 2016 from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM  | George Washington University, Funger Hall, Room 108, 2201 G St. NW, Washington, DC

Business Strategy Breakfast: Successes and Failures with Big Data Analysis

Business Strategy Breakfast  |  Friday September 30 2016 from 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM  | Social Tables DC Office, 1325 G St., NW, 3rd Floor, Washington, DC 20005

Webinar: Connecting Online Business Software 101 (B2B)

Webinar  |  Friday September 16 2016 from 10:00 AM to 10:50 AM (EDT)  | Online Webinar

Machine Learning and Graph Processing on Accumulo w/ Spark

Meetup | Wednesday August 10 2016 from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM | ByteCubed Offices 2231 Crystal Drive, Suite 401, Arlington, VA 22202

The goal of this presentation was to add new tools to the the data scientist toolbox. We went through the benefits of using Accumulo and Spark as a custom data analytic platform and provided some simple examples to ease processing.

Business Strategy Breakfast: Sweet Spot for Big Data

Business Strategy Breakfast | Friday August 26 2016 from 8:00 AM to 9:30 AM | 700 12th St NW #700, Washington, DC 20005

Webinar: Building Online Business Software 101 (B2B)

Webinar | Friday August 19 2016 from 10:00 AM to 10:50 AM (EDT) | Online Webinar

Native American Contractors Association - Emerging Native Leaders Summit

Educational Program | Tuesday August 16 to Thursday August 18 2016 | Blank Rome Government Relations LLC Offices, Watergate 600 New Hampshire Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20037

Data Cleansing with Spark / Scala

Meetup | Wednesday August 10 2016 from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM | GWU, Funger Hall, Room 108 2201 G St. NW, Washington, DC

Asynchronous Data Processing w/ Message Oriented Architecture

Meetup | Wednesday July 13 2016 from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM | GWU, Funger Hall, Room 108 2201 G St. NW, Washington, DC

Protecting User Privacy with Fuzzy-feeling Test Data

Meetup | Wednesday June 15 2016 from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM | GWU, Funger Hall, Room 108 2201 G St. NW, Washington, DC

Leveraging Big Data Technologies at the Government

Meetup | Wednesday May 11 2016 at 6:30 PM | GWU, Funger Hall, Room 108 2201 G St. NW, Washington, DC

Organizing People, Process, Information, and Systems for the Modern Era

Meetup | Tuesday May 10 2016 at 6 PM | UMBC Training Center, 6996 Columbia Gateway Drive, Suite #100, Columbia, MD

Is it easier today to start a business, create and market products and provide services to the masses than ever before? It’s a question worth asking. We at Anant believe so.

Knowledge Sharing Demo

Private Presentation | Friday May 6 | Fairfax County, VA

Hybrid Approach to Project Management

Meetup | Thursday May 5 2016 at 6:30PM | 1900 Gallows Rd, Vienna, VA 22182

Business Applications Demo DC Enterprise Tech Meetup

Meetup | Thursday April 28 2016 at 5:30 PM | 1010 Wisconsin Ave. NW #250, Washington, DC 20007

Getting to Continuous, One Iteration at a Time

Private Presentation | Monday April 18 | Washington, DC

Building Enterprise Search with Open Source Components

Meetup | Wednesday March 30 2016 at 6:30 PM | 1445 New York Ave NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC

Mastering Services in the Service of Others

Meetup | Wednesday March 23 2016 at 6:00 PM | 1300 17th St N #1800, Arlington, VA

Comparing SolR/Lucene/ElasticS­earch vs. Cloud based Search Providers

Meetup | Monday February 29 2016 at 6:15 PM | 727 Elden Street, 2nd Floor, Herndon, VA