Avi Bryant of Stripe is the Author of Brushfire, an extremely scalable framework for distributed and supervised learning of decision tree ensembles in Scala. This talk, featuring cookie monster, covers the architecture and algorithm of Brushfire where Bryant also runs through examples of using it with Scala library Scalding to build trees on Hadoop. Also, for context, one of the inspirations ...

This talk is from the North East Scala Symposium where Director of Engineering Toby Matjovsky spoke about Microservices in the context of working at Tapad, a Scala shop which develops proprietary software to deliver relevant content across different devices. As a rebranding of Service Oriented Architecture, which Matjovsky says became the clunky monolith it was supposed to replace, Tapad built ...