Erich Nachbar is Cofounder and CTO at Virtual Power Systems. He has been building scalable systems during his entire career. As a technology enthusiast he has been adopting promising technology like Hadoop (2007), Spark (2012) & Kafka (2012) early on. Erich has been speaking at various conferences like the Hadoop and Spark Summit on how to design contemporary system architectures and deploy them in production. Speaker Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFDtWW9ckqo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI81yppHI6w