Berlin Hadoop Get Together (April 2012)- videos are up # Sebastian Schelter: Introducing Apache Giraph for Large Scale Graph Processing Dr. Falk-Florian Henrich: Applying Compiler Technology to Event Stream Processing Dr. Mikio Braun: TWIMPACT: On Real-Time Twitter Analysis
Second steps with git # Leaving this here in case I’ll search for it later again - and I’m pretty sure I will. The following is a simplification of the git workflow detailed earlier - in particular the first two steps and a little background. When dealing with remotes the git remote documentation is very useful. When sharing your changes with others the git tutorial on sharing changes is very helpful. ...
Music in Berlin early June # A little bit of inspiration on what to do the weekend before and after Buzzwords in Berlin: Ballet in June at the Staatsballett Berlin Concerts in June at <a href=“ http://www.konzerthaus.de/programm/?datetimeAnf=1338501600&datetimeEnd=1341093600&id_language=1&month=6&year=2012" Konzerthaus Berlin Opera in June at Staatsoper Berlin Opera in June at Deutsche Oper Berlin Concerts in June at the Philharmoniker Berlin Opera in June at Komische Oper Berlin Theater (German-only, sorry, but open-air) at Hexenkessel Hoftheater ...
Berlin Buzzwords scheduling - behind the scenes # Since roughly a week the Berlin Buzzwords schedule is available online. Tickets are still available at the regular rate - make sure to book your ticket now - you’ve got another three weeks to purchase tickets at the regular rate, last minute rate will up the prize by another 100 Euros starting May 20th. I thought it might be interesting to share some background on how Berlin Buzzwords scheduling worked out this year. ...
Clojure Berlin - March 2012 # In today’s Clojure meetup Stefan Hübner gave an introduction to Cascalog - a Clojure library based on Cascading for large scale data processing on Apache Hadoop without hassle. After a brief overview of what he is using the tool for to do log processing at his day job for http://maps.nokia.com Stefan went into some more detail on why he chose Cascalog over other project that provide abstraction layers on top of Hadoop’s plain map/reduce library: Both Pig and Hive provide easy to learn SQL-like languages to quickly write analysis jobs. ...
Visiting Berlin Buzzwords - where to go for drinks and food # There are literally hundreds of bars and restaurants in easy walking distance to the conference venue. And if that is now enough for you, hop on U-Bahn and head east to either Kreuzberg or Friedrichshain to find more. For inspiration check out Tip Berlin - they have a decent, reliable restaurant list. For quick orientation: Berlin is no one city center but many districts that all have their own look and feel to them. ...
Walking through Berlin # Ever made the mistake of booking a flight to a city and trying to decide on what to do only after you arrived? That type of planning does work for Berlin - though you may end up with quite a different schedule than originally intended. The only thing that needs a bit of planning ahead (about a month) is visiting the Bundestag - fast way to discover it is to just go up to it’s dome. ...
Berlin Hadoop Get Together - videos are up # Markus Andrezak on Queue management with Kanban: Queue Management in Product Development with Kanban - enabling flow and fast feedback along the value chain from David Obermann on Vimeo. Martin Scholl on Storm: On Firehoses and Storms: Event Thinking, Event Processing from David Obermann on Vimeo. Fabian Hüske on Stratosphere: Large-Scale Data Analysis Beyond Map/Reduce from David Obermann on Vimeo.
Apache Hadoop Get Together - February 2012 # Today the first Hadoop Get Together Berlin 2012 took place - David got the event hosted by and at Axel Springer who kindly also paid for the (soon to be published) videos. Thanks also to the unbelievable Machine company for the tasty buffet after the meetup. Another thanks to Open Source Press for donating three of their Hadoop books. Today’s selection was quite diverse: The event started with a presentation by Markus Andrezak who gave an overview of Kanban and how it helped him change the development workflow over at eBay/mobile. ...
HowTo: Meetups in Berlin # I get that question once in a while - and need the list below myself every now and then: How to actually setup a meetup in Germany. Essentially it all boils down to three questions: Which channels to use for PR? Where to do the meeting? What other benefits to offer to attendees? When it comes to PR there are several options: Announce the meetup on relevant mailing lists ...