Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/DataStax/maximum-overdrive-tuning-the-spark-cassandra-connector-russell-spitzer-datastax-c-summit-2016 | Worried that you aren't taking full advantage of your Spark and Cassandra integration? Well worry no more! In this talk we'll take a deep dive into all of the available configuration options and see how they affect Cassandra and Spark performance. Concerned about throughput? Learn to adjust batching parameters and gain a boost in speed. Always running out of memory? We'll take a look at the various causes of OOM errors and how we can circumvent them. Want to take advantage of Cassandra's natural partitioning in Spark? Find out about the recent developments that let you perform shuffle-less joins on Cassandra-partitioned data! Come with your questions and problems and leave with answers and solutions! About the Speaker Russell Spitzer Software Engineer, DataStax Russell Spitzer received a Ph.D in Bio-Informatics before finding his deep passion for distributed software. He found the perfect outlet for this passion at DataStax where he began on the Automation and Test Engineering team. He recently moved from finding bugs to making bugs as part of the Analytics team where he works on integration between Cassandra and Spark as well as other tools.