BayLISA General Meeting - Tomorrow night 7pm Hadoop!

Wed Jun 18 15:03:00 PDT 2008

Last December, Marco presented a short but cool (winning the best talk of 
the night) in December 2008.  He is back for an even more indepth 
discussion about how Yahoo is using Hadoop, and how you can use it as 
well.

Topic:  hadoop!
Location: Yahoo Inc, 701 First St Sunnyvale CA 94086
Time: 7pm-?
BayLISA events are open and free to the general public.  Please do invite 
anyone you think might be interested.

Marco will be presenting an overview of the Apache Hadoop open source 
project. Hadoop is platform software aimed at solving Big Data problems. 
It is two distributed systems that cooperatively work together using the 
same set of computers: a distributed file system (HDFS) and a Map-Reduce 
framework. We'll go over the strengths and weaknesses of the design 
choices made by the development team, go through a brief demo of Hadoop in 
action, and discuss how to implement Hadoop grids within your own 
enterprise. If time permits, we'll take a sneak peek at two of the new 
open source projects to which the Yahoo! Grid Computing team is 
contributing effort.

Marco is the manager of Yahoo! Grid Services Operations. He has over a 
dozen years of experience managing Unix clusters at Walmart.com, Inktomi, 
GNN (a subsidiary of AOL) and UC Berkeley. His responsibilities have 
ranged from installations supporting over 1 billion transactions per month 
to systems of over 1,000 nodes. Marco holds a Bachelor's Degree from the 
University of California at Berkeley in Cognitive Science.

Next Month: July 16, Dtrace
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Jennifer Davis

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