The data-processing pipeline architecture
If you ask several people from the information technology world, we agree on few things, except that we are always looking for a new acronym, and the year 2015 was no exception.
As this book title says, SMACK stands for Spark, Mesos, Akka, Cassandra, and Kafka. All these technologies are open source. And with the exception of Akka, all are Apache Software projects. This acronym was coined by Mesosphere, a company that bundles these technologies together in a product called Infinity, designed in collaboration with Cisco to solve some pipeline data challenges where the speed of response is fundamental, such as in fraud detection engines.
SMACK exists because one technology doesn't make an architecture. SMACK ...
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