This document provides an overview of streaming big data with Spark, Kafka, Cassandra, Akka, and Scala. It discusses delivering meaning in near-real time at high velocity and an overview of Spark Streaming, Kafka and Akka. It also covers Cassandra and the Spark Cassandra Connector as well as integration in big data applications. The presentation is given by Helena Edelson, a Spark Cassandra Connector committer and Akka contributor who is a Scala and big data conference speaker working as a senior software engineer at DataStax.