Announcing the Los Angeles Hadoop Meetup
The Los Angeles Hadoop Meetup aims to be a Birds-Of-A-Feather style gathering of people working with Hadoop1 and related technologies. We’ll be kicking off the new group with pizza and beer. It will be a meet and greet, we’ll discuss how we’re using Hadoop, what we’d like to get out of it, and what’s new on the horizon. At present, the speaker is yet-to-be-determined.
At Mahalo, we’ve been using Hadoop more and more often. We use HBase to store the text and revisions of our pages, and we are building an in-house cluster to handle some of the large data operations we have to deal with from time to time.
It’s an interesting technology, and I know we’re not alone in adopting Hadoop as one of the tools in our toolbox. When I looked around to find a local group dealing specifically with Hadoop, I came up empty. The logical thing to do was to start a group.
If you’re interested and want to know more, please either visit the Meetup page, or leave a comment for me and I’ll email you directly.
- Hadoop is a software platform that lets one easily write and run applications that process vast amounts of data. I’ll be writing about this more in the future, both here and on Unspecified Error.[back]
September 19th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
I’ve not heard of this but it sounds immensely interesting. Good heads up.
I hope all is going well for you there. You are missed here in the great midwest swing state.
September 19th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Awww, thanks man.