About the Reviewer

Brian O'Neill is the principal architect at Monetate, Inc. Monetate's personalization platform leverages Spark and machine learning algorithms to process millions of events per second, leveraging real-time context and analytics to create personalized brand experiences at scale. Brian is a perennial Datastax Cassandra MVP and has also won InfoWorld’s Technology Leadership award.  Previously, he was CTO for Health Market Science (HMS), now a LexisNexis company.  He is a graduate of Brown University and holds patents in artificial intelligence and data management.

Prior to this publication, Brian authored a book on distributed computing, Storm Blueprints: Patterns for Distributed Real-time Computation, and contributed to Learning Cassandra for Administrators.