Seattle Hadoop / Scalability / NoSQL Meetup: Beyond MapReduce
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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:
Steve Lewis, Systems Biology: Protenomics and Hadoop
In recent years the use of mass spectrometry has revolutionized the analysis of proteins. The analysis involves digesting a collection of proteins into smaller strings of amino acids, separating the strings and running the strings through a two stage mass spectrometer.
Typical experiments may involve tens of thousands of measured spectra compared to millions of possible fragments.
This talk discusses mapping the search into a series of Hadoop jobs and how appropriate selection of key value pairs in each of several jobs can implement and speed up the search.
Mike Miller, Cloudant: Beyond the Event Horizon: what's coming after Hadoop
Inspired by the Google, MapReduce and Hadoop have exploded as "The Tool" for big data. Interestingly, Google no longer uses MapReduce to build their index of the web. We'll present a brief overview of new tools emerging for (1) incremental analytics (2) ad-hoc analytics and (3) dealing with highly-connected content.
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 Northbound 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.