About the Authors

Dipa Dubhashi is an alumnus of the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology and heads product management at Sigmoid. His prior experience includes consulting with ZS Associates besides founding his own start-up. Dipa specializes in envisioning enterprise big data products, developing their roadmaps, and managing their development to solve customer use cases across multiple industries. He advises several leading start-ups as well as Fortune 500 companies about architecting and implementing their next-generation big data solutions. Dipa has also developed a course on Apache Spark for a leading online education portal and is a regular speaker at big data meetups and conferences.

Akhil Das is a senior software developer at Sigmoid primarily focusing on distributed computing, real-time analytics, performance optimization, and application scaling problems using a wide variety of technologies such as Apache Spark and Mesos, among others. He contributes actively to the Apache Spark project and is a regular speaker at big data conferences and meetups, MesosCon 2015 being the most recent one.

We would like to thank several people that helped make this book a reality: Revati Dubhashi, without whose driving force this book would not have seen the light of day; Chithra, for her constant encouragement and support; and finally, Mayur Rustagi, Naveen Molleti, and the entire Sigmoid family for their invaluable guidance and technical input.