The Los Angeles Hadoop Meetup aims to be a Birds-Of-A-Feather style gathering of people working with Hadoop 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.