Alex Robbins from Factual will give us a preview of his upcoming Clojure/West talk on Cascalog.
Cascalog is a Clojure library that makes it easier to write distributed batch processing jobs. It is built on top of Hadoop, but allows computations and queries to be written at a much higher level of abstraction. Cascalog allows large, distributed processing jobs to be written in a declarative manner, greatly shortening and simplifying writing many Hadoop tasks.
This talk will provide an introduction to Cascalog, a brief tour of its features, and finish with writing a sample application using some live coding. The intent is to help people unfamiliar with Cascalog to identify places it could be of use in their systems.
Alex Robbins is a developer at Factual, where he uses Cascalog and Clojure to wrangle data. He lives in Dallas, Texas with his better half, Sally, and a boston terrier. When not programming, he enjoys riding his bike, playing board games and doing krav maga. He co-organizes the Dallas/Fort Worth Clojure user group and can't wait for Dallas to become the center of the Clojure world.
