Monthly Meetup - Big Data: Lions, and Tigers and Pig Ohh My

We will meet on Thursday, May 15, 2014 at Adecco's offices at 101 Bullitt Lane. Doors will open at 6:30pm and the presentations will begin sharply at 7:00 pm. Along with a great presentation, we'll have food and raffle prizes. Be sure to RSVP so we know how much food is needed.

Big Data: Lions, and Tigers and Pig Ohh My
You know Big Data is all about data sets that are not best served on a traditional RDBMS, but what does that really mean to you? In this session, we look at Big Data through a developer’s eyes. What is Apache Hadoop, how does it work, how can I get started without waiting 111 days to download a massively large dataset, and what the heck is thing called Pig Latin anyway? These questions and more are answered as we work through setting up a local single node hadoop cluster and then look at various cloud providers as we burst to the web without breaking the bank. Kick back and enjoy as we take a stroll with Big Data.

Wesley Reisz
Wesley Reisz is an Enterprise Systems Design Lead at HP Enterprise Services serving the Human Resources Command (HRC). Wes worked with the command (and the previous Accessions Command) for just over ten years. In addition to several other projects, he was the tech lead for the Accessions Command Enterprise Portal, and was the driving force behind its replacement IKROme. Wes’ key areas of focus has been Enterprise Java and .NET, and now is moving heavily towards mobility. Additionally over the past ten years, Wes has taught hundreds of juniors and seniors at both the University of Louisville and Bellarmine University as an adjunct faculty member. He has taught a variety of courses including, senior-level programming capstone courses in Web Architecture using Java, .NET, and LAMP stack technologies. Wes is a big believer in Mobile First when design applications today. So for the last couple of years, Wes has spoke at several conferences about the merits and drawbacks of HTML5. A couple of his videos were recorded and can be found at Infoq.com. Wes is an active reviewer for the Pragmatic Press and has reviewed books on Agile Methodologies, .NET, Java, iOS, and Ruby. When he is not working or teaching, Wes is a big Louisville Cardinal fan, and is looking forward to the move to the ACC. Go Cards!