Kumar Sharath - Learning Elastic Stack 6.0 a beginners guide to distributed search, analytics, and visualization using Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana

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First published: December 2017

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Pranav Shukla is the founder and CEO of Valens DataLabs, a technologist, husband, and father of two. He is a big data architect and software craftsman who uses JVM-based languages. Pranav has diverse experience of over 14 years in architecting enterprise applications for Fortune 500 companies and start-ups. His core expertise lies in building JVM-based, scalable, reactive, and data-driven applications using Java/Scala, the Hadoop ecosystem, Apache Spark, and NoSQL databases. He is a big data engineering, analytics, and machine learning enthusiast.

Pranav founded Valens DataLabs with a vision to help companies leverage data to their competitive advantage. Valens DataLabs specializes in developing next-generation, cloud-based, reactive, and data-intensive applications using big data and web technologies. The company believes in agile practices, lean principles, test-driven and behavior-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous delivery for sustainable software systems.

In his free time, he enjoys reading books, playing musical instruments, singing, listening to music, and watching cricket. You can reach him via email at pranav.shukla@valensdatalabs.com and follow him on Twitter at @pranavshukla81.

Sharath Kumar M N has done his masters in Computer Science at The University of Texas, Dallas, USA. He has been in the IT industry for more than ten years now and is the Elasticsearch Solutions Architect at Oracle. He is an Elastic Stack advocate, and being an avid speaker he has also given several tech talks in conferences such as the Oracle Code Event. Sharath is a certified trainer Elastic Certified Instructor one of the few technology experts in the world who has been certified by Elastic Inc to deliver their official from the creators of Elastic training. He is also a data science and machine learning enthusiast.

In his free time, he enjoys trekking, listening to music, playing with his lovely pets Guddu and Milo and the geek in him loves exploring his Python skills for stock market analysis . You can reach him via email at mnsk07@gmail.com .

Marcelo Ochoa works at the systems laboratory of Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is the CTO at www.scotas.com, a company that specializes in near-real-time search solutions using Apache Solr and Oracle. He divides his time between university jobs and external projects related to Oracle and big data technologies. He has worked on several Oracle-related projects, such as the translation of Oracle manuals and multimedia CBTs. His background is in database, network, web, and Java technologies. In the XML world, Marcelo is known as the developer of DB Generator for the Apache Cocoon project. He has worked on the open source projects DBPrism and DBPrism CMS, Lucene-Oracle integration using the Oracle JVM Directory implementation, and the Restlet.org project, where he worked on the Oracle XDB Restlet Adapter, an alternative to writing native REST web services inside a database-resident JVM.