Amr Awadallah oversees Cloud Developer Relations, including the overall Cloud Information Experience, Advocacy and Developer Program Engineering. Prior to joining Google in Nov 2019, Amr co-founded Cloudera in 2008 and as CTO, he spent the last 11 years working closely with enterprise customers and developers around the world. He also served as vice president of product intelligence engineering at Yahoo! and ran one of the very first organizations to use Hadoop for big data analysis and business intelligence. Amr received his PhD in EE from Stanford University (thesis was on leveraging virtual machines to implement internet scale applications), and his Bachelor and Master Degrees from Cairo University, Egypt.

Recent advances to the Apache Spark ecosystem make it a great framework for distributing Deep Learning jobs. You’ll learn more about why as well as how to distribute a TensorFlow job using Spark.

Table formats (Hudi, Iceberg, Delta Lake) are getting adopted by enterprises. In this talk, we will dive into what they are, how they work and introduce the new changes in Apache Iceberg.

Introduce the improvements on Hive Metastore by adding the options to use gRPC as the access interface and Cloud Spanner as the backend database, which enhance the RPC functionalities, authorization/authentication, and database scalability.

After livestreaming the sessions, we will host an After Party on Google Meet that will require you to log-in to a Google account. If you already have an account, please make sure to have your login and password handy. If you need to create an account, instructions can be found here. 

Once the After Party opens, you will be prompted to join via a link on your screen.