November 2, 2011
Apache Hadoop Get Together - Hand over # Apache Hadoop receives lots of attention from large US corporations who are using the project to scale their data processing pipelines:
“Facebook uses Hadoop and Hive extensively to process large data sets. […]” (Ashish Thusoo, Engineering Manager at Facebook), “Hadoop is a key ingredient in allowing LinkedIn to build many of our most computationally difficult features […]” (Jay Kreps, Principal Engineer, LinkedIn), “Hadoop enables [Twitter] to store, process, and derive insights from our data in ways that wouldn’t otherwise be possible.
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October 28, 2011
One Ring to rule them all # One Ring to find them
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them:
October 25, 2011
Apache Con NA # Title: Apache Con NA
Location: Vancouver
Link out: Click here
Start Date: 2011-11-07<br />End Date: 2011-11-11
October 24, 2011
See you in Vancouver at Apache Con NA 2011 # Mid November Apache hosts its famous yearly conference - this time in Vancouver/Canada. They kindly accepted my presentations on Apache Mahout for intelligent data analysis (mostly focused on introducing the project to new comers and showing what happened within the project in the past year - if you have any wish concerning topics you would like to see covered in particular, please let me know) as well as a more committer focused one on Talking people into creating patches (with the goal of highlighting some of the issues new-comers to free software projects that want to contribute run into and initiating a discussion on what helps to convince them to keep up the momentum and over come and obstacles).
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October 23, 2011
GoTo Con AMS - Day 2 # Day two of GoTo Con Amsterdam started with a keynote by former Squeak developer Dan Ingalls. He introduced the Lively kernel - a component architecture for HTML5 that runs in any browser and allows easy composition, sharing and programming of items. Having seen Squeak years ago and being thrilled by its concepts even back then it was amazing to see what you can do with Lively kernel in a browser.
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October 22, 2011
GoTo Con AMS - Day 1 # Last week GoTo Con took place in Amsterdam. Being a sister conference to GoTo in Aarhus the Amsterdam event focused on the broad topics of agile development, architectural challenges, backend and frontend development, platforms like the JVM and .NET. In addition the Amsterdam event featured a special Apache track tailored towards presentations focusing on the development model at Apache and the technologies developed at Apache.
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October 21, 2011
Dear lazy web: Travel recommendations # Finally getting to spend some days of vacation in the bay area soon - so I thought I might try to leverage the lazy web on recommendations on what not to miss while there. So far on our list:
Rent a canoo in Sausalito
Take a tour to Alcatras
Get to drive down along the coast towards Half Moon Bay
Spend one or two days strolling through the city to take photos
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October 21, 2011
Night Trains # It was several years ago that a frequent traveller told me about it being more comfortable and time saving to travel mid-sized distances (e.g. from Berlin to Amsterdam) by train - night train that is - instead of flying. Back then without decent knowledge of which combination of booking early and discount card make prizes of trips by train somewhat comparable to those offered by airlines that wasn’t really an option for me.
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October 10, 2011
GoTo Con # Location: Amsterdam
Link out: Click here
Start Date: 2011-10-12
End Date: 2011-10-14
This week late Tuesday night I am going to leave for GoTo con in Amsterdam. Train tickets are already booked - this is going to be my first trip with City Night line, will see how great they are.
GoTo Amsterdam features a special Apache track as well as several talk on scaling up, searching, but also includes stuff in general architectural decisions.
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September 26, 2011
Design Thinking @ Scrumtisch Berlin # This evening Mary Poppendieck gave a presentation on Design Thinking in Berlin. “What does the US Military have in common with Apple?” In her talk Mary went into more detail about how increasing complexity calls for a need to rethink design. Slides are available online. Thanks for sharing them.
Mary started with a question for the audience on who in your company decides what is to be developed: Is it the PO?
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