Last week the March 2010 Hadoop Get Together took place in Berlin. Last speaker was Chris Male on spatial search with Lucene and Solr. The video is now available online:
Feel free to share and distribute the video to anyone who might be interested. Thank you Chris, for traveling over from Amsterdam for an awesome talk on spatial search.
If you want to learn more on what people over at Lucene and Solr are currently working one, head over to Berlin Buzzwords - a conference on scalable search, storage and data analysis. If you yourself have interesting projects - feel free to submit a talk.
Thanks to Nokia for sponsoring the video taping - and again as always thanks to newthinking for providing the location for free.
In the following video taken at the last Hadoop Get Together in Berlin Jörg Möllenkamp explains why Hadoop is interesting for Sun - and why Sun Hardware might be a good fit for Hadoop applications:
Richard Hutton from nugg.ad explained how they scaled their ad recommendation system to an increasing number of users with the help of Hadoop. To learn more on their use case and details on which problems they solved with Hadoop, watch the video below:
As of yesterday the videos of the last Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin are available online.
Thanks to the speakers for providing insight in their projects and thanks to Cloudera for sponsoring the videos.
The next meetup will be announced soon - three talks have already been proposed. In addition, StudiVZ offered to sponsor video taping of the next Get Together. Looking forward to seeing you in Berlin in December.