Dean Wampler, PhD (@deanwampler), is Lightbend’s architect for fast data products in the office of the CTO. With over 25 years of experience, he’s worked across the industry, most recently focused on the exciting big data/fast data ecosystem. Dean is the author of Programming Scala, Second Edition, and Functional Programming for Java Developers, and the coauthor of Programming Hive, all from O’Reilly. Dean is a contributor to several open source projects and he is a frequent speaker at several industry conferences, some of which he co-organizes, along with several Chicago-based user groups.
Dean would like to thank Stavros Kontopoulos, Luc Bourlier, Debasish Ghosh, Viktor Klang, Jonas Bonér, Markus Eisele, and Marie Beaugureau for helpful feedback on drafts of this report.
