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.
Reasons for you to visit Berlin Buzzwords # I’ve heard of several people who are not quite sure yet whether they should visit Berlin Buzzwords or not - in particular when having to travel far and cross 9 time zones to attend. My general recommendation is to plan to spend some more days in Europe. The conference is conveniently scheduled on Monday and Tuesday which gives you one weekend before to explore the city and the whole week afterwards to go and see more either in the city or around. ...
Berlin Tech Meetups # Berlin currently is of growing interest for software engineers, has a very active startup scene and as a result several community organised meetups. Listed below is a short, “highly objective” selection of local user groups - showing just the breadth of topics discussed. Berlin Hadoop Get Together Berlin DevOps Berlin Buzzwords (conference, no meetup) Berlin Scrumtisch Java User Group Berlin/Brandenburg Berlin Google Technology User Group ...
December Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin # First of all please note that meetup organisation is being transitioned over to our xing meetup group. So in order to be notified of future meetings, make sure to join that group. Please make also sure to register for the December event as in contrast to past meetups this time space will be limited, so make sure to grab a ticket. If you cannot make it, please let the organiser know so he can issue additional tickets. ...
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. ...
Apache Dinner Berlin # Title: Apache Dinner Berlin Location: Good Morning Vietnam X-Berg<br />Start Time: 19:00 Date: 2011-02-28 Please contact Simon Willnauer if you would like to attend for further information.
Video is up - Simon Willnauer on Lucene 4 Performance improvements #
Video is up - Josh Devins on Apache Hadoop at Nokia #
CFP - Berlin Buzzwords 2011 - search, score, scale # This is to announce the Berlin Buzzwords 2011. The second edition of the successful conference on scalable and open search, data processing and data storage in Germany, taking place in Berlin. Call for Presentations Berlin Buzzwords http://berlinbuzzwords.de Berlin Buzzwords 2011 - Search, Store, Scale 6/7 June 2011 The event will comprise presentations on scalable data processing. We invite you to submit talks on the topics: ...