Hadoop Demystified

Please join Lester Martin who will be presenting on Apache Hadoop. He will present a crash-course in the history of Hadoop, describe all the major moving parts, discuss the sweet-spots for this technology, review who the major players are, and detail Microsoft's involvement in this open-source suite of components.

As fast as we can we'll jump into a technology deep dive. "Core Hadoop" (i.e. HDFS and MapReduce) will be presented, and demoed using C#! We'll continue on and discuss the higher-level abstractions of Pig and Hive and demo the MapReduce use case in these ecosystem tools.

Lester Martin

Lester is a 20+ year software development veteran with skills ranging from the mainframe, through every kind of distributed & web technology, and more recently has been focusing on "big data" tools to include Hadoop and NoSQL technologies. He currently works in the professional services organization of Hortonworks (http://hortonworks.com/) and can talk your ear off about this exciting technology.

You can keep up with Lester on Twitter as @LesterMartinATL (https://twitter.com/LesterMartinATL) or by reading his blog (https://martin.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/viewrecentblogposts.action?key=lestermartin). Oh... and if you have a canoe or kayak, he's got a challenge for you!

The presentation kicks off at 7pm so get there a little early for pizza and socializing beforehand.