Seattle Hadoop / Scalability / NoSQL Meetup: Radiation Measurements w/ CouchDB
- March 23, 2011 · 7:00 PM
[B]NOTE: Here's an image of the meeting locale[/b]
This meetup focuses on Scalability and technologies to enable handling large amounts of data: Hadoop, HBase, distributed NoSQL databases, and more!
There's not only a focus on technology, but also everything surrounding it including operations, management, business use cases, and more.
[b]This Month[/b]
Mike Miller w/ Cloudant will talk about using CouchDB to measure radiation remnants from the Japanese reactor incident. Awesome!
We've had great success in the past, and are growing quickly! Including guests from Twitter, LinkedIn, Amazon, Cloudant, 10gen/MongoDB, and more.
Our format is flexible: We usually have speakers who talk for ~30 minutes each and then do Q+A, plus discussion.
There'll be beer afterwards, of course! Fierabend, 422 Yale Ave N
Meetup Location:
Amazon HQ, Von Vorst Building, 426 Terry Ave N., Seattle, WA 98109-5210
NOTE: This building is in the 'back right' of the area with the stairs.
Doors open 30 minutes ahead of show-time. Please show up at least 15 minutes early out of respect for our first speaker.
Driving Directions
From I-5 Northound and Southbound:
Take exit 167 for Mercer St toward Seattle Center
Keep left at the fork, follow signs for Fairview Ave/Denny Way
Turn left at Fairview Ave N
Turn right at Harrison St
Take the 2nd right onto Terry Ave N
From Downtown (Columbia Building):
Head southwest on Columbia St toward 4th Ave
Take the 1st right onto 4th Ave
Turn right at Virginia St
Turn left at the 3rd cross street onto Westlake Ave
Turn right at Harrison St
Take the 1st left onto Terry Ave N
Parking: Visitor parking is available in the underground parking garage on Harrison and Terry (directly under the Amazon building) there is also street parking and surface parking lots.
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Jeffrey
This was my first NoSQL meetup and I was very impressed with the content and practical application of big data technology!
March 27, 2011
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Clive Boulton
Mike kept the senior technical audience spellbound by linking CouchDB to his unconventional but scientific measurements of the energy plume emitted from Japans broken reactors.
March 24, 2011
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Umesh
What a great talk! Liked the fact that it included the key aspects/challenges in setting up the experiments, collecting data, all the way up to aggregating in the cloud.
The speaker then led a Q&A session about CloudDB and BigCloud technologies which was informative as well.
The speaker had a lively presentation style in addition to the very informative and technology-rich talk -- which is rare
March 24, 2011
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Michael Rys
Very entertaining speaker. The topic was more about Radiation measurements than CouchDB/BigCouch though. Would have loved to see a bit more details around:
1. Why did he chose CouchDB/BigCouch (besides being the developer on it)
2. What were the lessons from using itThe follow-up Q/A was more valuable from the tech point of view.
March 24, 2011
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Umesh
Mike - What a great talk! Liked the fact that it included the key aspects/challenges in setting up the experiments, collecting data, all the way up to aggregating in the cloud. The Q&A later about CloudDB and BigCloud technologies was informative as well.
Liked your lively presentation style as well. Style with the substance - that is not so common.
Brad - Thoroughly enjoyed my first talk at this meetup - definitely will be back for more!!
Thank you!
March 24, 2011
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David
My first meetup - VERY glad I attended. Thank you Mike Miller! ...how about some hyper links for the material? :)
March 24, 2011
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Bradford Stephens
Mike is one of the best people I've ever met. Always, always a joy to have him. I'm so glad you enjoyed it!
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Nick Negulescu
Hi Bradford Stephens, I had mixed feelings about you not being there tonight (don't take any offense to this) but it worked out better that way. There was no moderator to get in Mike's way! =)
Mike Miller was AWESOME. Was it just me or did everyone notice how awesome tonight's meetup was? Mike, I'm glad that you shared the realpolitik on nuclear and big data. You know, I feel like conversations with non technical people just have too much cruft. Give me the data AND the dirt. Brilliant!
March 23, 2011
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