Fast Data Processing Systems with SMACK Stack. Combine the incredible powers of Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, and Kafka to build data processing platforms that can take on even the hardest of your data troubles!

SMACK is an open source full stack for big data architecture. It is a combination of Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, and Kafka.

• This stack is the newest technique developers have begun to use to tackle critical real-time analytics for big data.

• First you’ll get to grips with functional thinking and problem solving using Scala.
• Next you’ll come to understand the Akka architecture.
• Then you’ll get to know how to improve the data structure architecture and optimize resources using Apache Spark.
• Moving forward, you’ll learn how to perform linear scalability in databases with Apache Cassandra.
• You’ll grasp the high throughput distributed messaging systems using Apache Kafka.
• We’ll show you how to build a cheap but effective cluster infrastructure with Apache Mesos.
• Finally, you will deep dive into the different aspect of SMACK using a few case studies.

This highly practical guide will teach you how to integrate these technologies to create a highly efficient data analysis system for fast data processing.We’ll start off with an introduction to SMACK and show you when to use it. By the end of the book, you will be able to integrate all the components of the SMACK stack and use them together to achieve highly effective and fast data processing.