Video: “Accessing Hadoop data with HCatalog and PostgreSQL” # Manuel Meßner, Stephan Friese, Dr. Stefanie Huber: "Accessing Hadoop data with HCatalog and PostgreSQL" from David Obermann on Vimeo.
Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin - August 2012 # Despite beautiful summer weather roughly 50 people gathered at ImmobilienScout24 for the August 2012 edition of the Apache Hadoop Get Together (Thanks again for hosting the event and sponsoring drinks and pizza to ImmoScout as well as to David Obermann for organising the meetup. Today there were three talks: In the first presentation Dragan Milosevic (also known from his talk at the Hadoop GetTogether and his presentation at Berlin Buzzwords) provided more insight as to how Zanox is managing their internal RPC protocols in particular when it comes to versioning and upgrading protocol versions. ...
Apache Con returns to Europe # In November Apache Con will come back to Europe. The event will take place in Sinsheim inviting foundation members, project committers, contributors and users to meet, discuss and have fun during the one week event. Several meetups will be held the weekend before the main conference kicks off, watch out for announcements on your favourite project mailing list. ApacheCon is still open for submissions until August 3rd - head over to the Call for submissions for more information. ...
Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin # As seen on Xing - the next Apache Hadoop Get Together is planned to take place in August: When: 15. August, 18 p.m. Where: Immobilien Scout GmbH, Andreasstr. 10, 10243 Berlin As always there will be slots of 30min each for talks on your Hadoop topic. After each talk there will be time for discussion. It is important to indicate attendance. Only registered visitors will be permitted to attend. ...
Need your input: Failing big data projects - experiences from the wild # A few weeks ago my talk on “How to fail your big data project quick and rapidly” was accepted at O’Reily Strata conference in London. The basic intention of this talk is to share some anti-patterns, embarrassing failure modes and “please don’t do this at home” kind of advice with those entering the buzzwordy space of big data. ...
Berlin Buzzwords Schedule online - book your ticket now # As of beginning of last week the Berlin Buzzwords schedule is online. The Program Committee has completed reviewing all submissions and set up the schedule containing a great lineup of speakers for this years Berlin Buzzwords program. Among the speakers we have Leslie Hawthorn (Red Hat), Alex Lloyd (Google), Michael Busch (Twitter) as well as Nicolas Spiegelberg (Facebook). Checkout our program in the online schedule. ...
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
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. ...
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. ...