The new Strata Conference has just been announced with a Call for Proposals ending Sept 28. This new conference is on the 'business of data' and is the sister conference to Velocity. I'm excited to be a committee member.
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I'll be at the (and a sponsor of) the BigDataCamp the night before the Hadoop Summit. Sign up if you haven't.
The first ever Cascading User Group will be this Thursday, September 24th, at RapLeaf.
There will be discussions on the future of Cascading, the work done by the FlightCaster folk integrating Cascading with Clojure, and various tips and techniques.
Hope to see you there.
A pre-release of the upcoming Cascading 1.1 version is now available. Read more about its new features here in this announcement.
Quick reminder I'll be in Portland the bulk of next week (June 17-19) at Open Source Bridge presenting on Cascading and Hadoop. Feel free to ping me if you're around.
ScaleCamp, the night before the Hadoop Summit 2009.
Thought I would share the dates/location of my next four presentations over the next few weeks.
Continue reading Upcoming Presentations.
I've been either directly or indirectly involved in a fair number of Hadoop applications and deployments over the last year or so. In that time I've roughly characterized Hadoop usage into two "why's" and two "how's".
Continue reading The Whys and Hows of Hadoop.
I spent the later part of last week at the LA HBase Hackathon hacking support for HBase into a Cascading module extension. And it was time well spent.
Continue reading Cascading + HBase.
In case you missed it, Cascading 1.0 is now available. Here is the very short announcement on the Cascading site.
