FOSDEM - video recordings online
February 14, 2010
FOSDEM - video recordings online # As published in the FOSDEM blog the video recordings are available online - at least for the main track and the lightning talks. Happy video watching!
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Berlin Buzzwords - June 2010
February 11, 2010
Berlin Buzzwords - June 2010 # As announced at FOSDEM: Early June (currently scheduled for 7th/8th) a conference on the topics scalable search, storage and processing will take place in Kalkscheune/Berlin. The conference is co-organised by newthinking store, Jan Lehnardt, Simon Willnauer, Thilo Fromm, and Isabel Drost. The focus will be on NoSQL databases like CouchDB, Jackrabbit, MongoDB, HBase. Search tracks will cover topics like Lucene, Solr, katta and others. ...
Apache Hadoop Get Together - March 2010 - Update
February 11, 2010
Apache Hadoop Get Together - March 2010 - Update # Due to conflicts in the schedule of newthinking store, we had to change the time of the Get Together slightly. We will start one hour earlier than announced. When: March 10th, 4p.m. Where: newthinking store, Tucholskystr. 48, Berlin Mitte Looking forward to seeing you there.
FOSDEM 2010 - part 3
February 10, 2010
FOSDEM 2010 - part 3 # Sunday started in Janson with Andrian Bowyer’s talk on RepRap machines, that is devices that can be used as manufacturing devices and are able to replicate themselves. After that I went over to the Mono dev room to listen to Miguel de Icaza on Mono Edge. A great talk on the history of Mono, the way the community interacts with Microsoft, the C# language itself and special features only available in Mono. ...
Hadoop trainings in Europe
February 2, 2010
Hadoop trainings in Europe # Recently I received this mail from Christophe Bisciglia on Cloudera Hadoop trainings. Thought it might be interesting to the Hadoop Berlin community: Hadoop Fans, Over the next year, you’ll see new options for Hadoop training and certification from Cloudera. One of the first things you’ll see will be live sessions outside the US, tentatively planned for the April / May time frame. We’ve seen strong interest in Hadoop on all of our international ...
Shopping at Ikea
February 1, 2010
Shopping at Ikea # Some weeks ago, Thilo had a tiny little gadget not to be missed in an average geek’s appartment: A server - admittedly a little old and a bit slow, but still usable for playing around. He installed Ubuntu server on it. At the evening we got it configured to run Hadoop. Little later we found out that some friends of us probably, maybe have some usable hardware left as well - we’ll see on Monday. ...
Hadoop at Heise c't
January 31, 2010
Hadoop at Heise c’t # <surreptitious_advertising> Interesting for those readers speaking German: Heise published an introductory article on Hadoop in its latest issue. Have fun reading. <surreptitious_advertising/> Thanks to Simon for proof-reading and providing valuable input. Thanks to Thilo Fromm for the hadoop graphics (unfortunately none of them got published in its original form), the catchy title, proof-reading the text over and over again and for keeping me sane during several past and coming months. ...
March 2010 Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin
January 29, 2010
March 2010 Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin # This is to announce the next Apache Hadoop Get Together that will take place in newthinking store in Berlin. When: March 10th, 4p.m. Where: Newthinking store Berlin As always there will be slots of 20min each for talks on your Hadoop topic. After each talk there will be a lot time to discuss. You can order drinks directly at the bar in the newthinking store. ...
Third "December Hadoop Get Together" video online
January 5, 2010
Third “December Hadoop Get Together” video online # 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: Hadoop Jörg Möllenkamp from Isabel Drost on Vimeo. In a blog post published after the event, Jörg gives more details on his idea of Parasitic Hadoop he introduced at the meetup. ...
Second December Hadoop Get Together video
January 3, 2010
Second December Hadoop Get Together video # 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: Hadoop Richard Hutton from Isabel Drost on Vimeo.