Seattle Hadoop / Scalability / NoSQL Meetup: SQL Azure

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! 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.

Speaker: Michael Rys, Microsoft SQL Azure

Abstract:

Many applications both in the internet and corporate environment have to process a lot of data that can easily overwhelm a single system database. Thus, applications often scale-out their data-tier by partitioning their data across many databases, a process commonly referred to as sharding. With the advent of NoSQL systems, these paradigms are now making the transition from the application-tier, where every application needs to manage its own sharding approach, into the data platform. This presentation with show how the new SQL Azure Federation concept is providing this NoSQL paradigm in the SQL Azure platform. It will cover the principals behind SQL Azure Federations, and set the context for using SQL Azure for big data business applications.

Bio:

Michael Rys, earned his PhD at the Swiss Federal Technology in Database Systems and did post-doctoral research into semistructured data and information integration at the Stanford University Database group.

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.