Spire: Real-Time SQL on Hadoop + Whitepages: Scaling DevOps

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! Previous guests were from Twitter, LinkedIn, Amazon, Cloudant, Microsoft, 10gen/MongoDB, and more.

This month's guests:

Bradford Stephens, EIR, DevEv for Ping Identity

"Building a Distributed SQL Database...From Scratch!"

Bradford Stephens, was Founder and CEO of Drawn to Scale, a venture-backed startup. We built Spire, the first SQL database on Hadoop. So here's a deep dive into architecture of a distributed system. A rare glance into an actual, production-grade system.

Jeffrey Hulten, Software Engineer for WhitePages

"Scaling DevOps"

Jeffrey Hulten, specializes in Infrastructure automation, IT operations, metrics and measurement. This talk will dive into scaling ops for web proprieties operating at scale often with Chef.

Our format is flexible: We usually have 2 speakers who talk for ~30 minutes each and then do Q+A plus discussion (about 45 minutes each talk) finish by 8:45p.

There'll be beer afterwards, of course!

Meetup Location:

WhitePages (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1301+5th+Avenue+%231700%2C+Seattle%2C+WA), 1301 5th Avenue #1600, Seattle, WA

After-beer Location:

Rock Bottom Brewery

Doors open 30 minutes ahead of show-time. Please show up at least 15 minutes early out of respect for our first speaker.