Arne Claassen is the Data Architect at Emotient, building the data processing pipeline and analytics engine for Emotient's emotion detection and sentiment analysis systems. Arne has been involved with large scale web applications and distributed systems for over 14 years. His particular areas of interest are building distributed and asynchronous system and finding better ways to create systems that scale across many processors and servers in an accessible and intuitive manner. His current efforts are focused on Scala and the JVM. @sdether