July 8th Meetup Agenda
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Agenda:
- 6:00 pm – 6:15 pm :
- 6:15 pm – 6:45 pm:
- 7:00 pm – 7:30 pm:
- 7:30 pm – 8:00 pm:
Registration & Mixer
Cost Effective BigData processing using Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) – Sujee Maniyam
Why is MapReduce still a niche technology? An evaluation of the current state of MapReduce. – Chris Neumann
Q&A Session, Networking, Mixer
Topic Details:
6:15 pm – 6:45 pm:
Cost Effective BigData processing using Amazon Elastic Map Reduce (EMR)
– Sujee Maniyam
BigData is no longer just the problem for the big guys (Facebook / Yahoo / Google). Even startups are struggling to deal with huge amount of data. The problems are real, the solutions are challenging and the budget is tight. Amazon Elastic Map Reduce offers a big data crunching solution, that is inline with ‘pay for use’ model of Amazon EC2. Sujee will talk about his experience building a scalable, cost-effective, data-warehouse system on top of Amazon ‘cloud’ infrastructure (EC2, S3, EMR) for a startup. He will go through the evaluation process and final implementation and happy to swap some tips and tricks he learned along the way.
About the presenter :
Sujee Maniyam is a seasoned software engineer, consulting as a BigData architect. He writes about Hadoop and other technology stuff at his site http://sujee.net/tech/
7:00 pm – 7:30 pm:
Why is MapReduce still a niche technology? An evaluation of the current state of MapReduce.
– Chris Neumann
It’s now midway through 2011. IBM, EMC and Cloudera all have their own distributions of Hadoop. Aster Data’s SQL/MR has been available for almost three years, and most other Big Data RDBMS vendors have since jumped on the MapReduce bandwagon. Yet despite increasing momentum, growing media hype, and all-around potential, MapReduce is still a niche technology, used by specialized teams of programmers in a small (albeit growing) number of companies. Find out why.
About the presenter :
Chris Neumann was the fourth employee at Aster Data and first software engineer. Over 5+ years with Aster, he held a number of roles across the company, most recently as Director of Business Development and Director of Sales and Technology Operations. Chris is currently an independent consultant specializing in Big Data
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