Seattle Hadoop / Scalability / NoSQL Meetup: Riak

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. We've had great success in the past, and are growing quickly!

This month's guests:

Greg Pascale, Clipboard.com: Greg will be speaking about Riak (a distributed data store) in the infrastructure of Clipboard.com

Mark Phillips, Basho: Mark will be speaking about the internals of Riak and some of the distributed algorithms behind it.

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.