Seattle Scalability Meetup: A Very Eastside Xmas

This meetup focuses on Scalability and technologies to enable handling large amounts of data: Distributed Systems, Hadoop, HBase, distributed NoSQL databases, and more!

We are heavily focused on deep, technical talks. No marketing pitches, no light use case discussions, no pitches. We want to see architecture diagrams, code, and hear real stories from the trenches.

Besides distributed systems and Big Data, we're also interested in hearing about high-performance engineering techniques and futuristic technologies.

We've had great success in the past, and are growing quickly! Previous guests were from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Amazon, Cloudant, Microsoft, MongoDB, and others.

This month's guests:

Sungwook Yoon, Data Scientist, MapR Technologies

Malware Detection Using Spark The IT environment is rapidly changing: new technology stacks emerge every year that serve billions of people worldwide. However, many of these new technologies have not been thoroughly tested, and as a result, they have been targeted by malware writers. Target and eBay may just be the tip of the iceberg in terms of massive data breaches. Technology may be advancing at a breakneck pace, but so has the advancement of malware and advanced persistent threats (APT). Given the large number of threat types, signature-based detection is a limited solution. The good news is that big data and automated machine learning technologies are also rapidly advancing. We are now at the start of the new era where big data and machine learning can potentially stop zero-day attacks. In this talk, I will review security software and big data technologies such as Spark that can work together in order to prevent perennial malware attacks.

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Michael Graboski, Solutions Engineer, Cloud Platform at Google

Auto scaling and load balancing fun on GCP

Setting up Autoscaling and Load Balancing on Google Cloud Platform. A technical, step by step walk through.

• Creating a managed instance group of container-optimized VM's
• Adding an HTTP load balancer on top of the instance group
• Adding autoscaling
• Setting up another instance group of backend services

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Stephen Siciliano: Program Manager, Microsoft Azure Autoscale

Setting up Autoscaling on Microsoft Azure.

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 8:45.

There'll be beer afterwards, of course!

Meetup Location:

It will be held in City Center Plaza on the 2nd Floor in Hemlock and Pine (2130-2150).

Folks can park in visitor parking on the 1st level of the parking garage. VERY IMPORTANT: Folks need to park in the City Center Plaza garage, not under the other building (City Center Bellevue)– we can’t validate for the other parking garage.

"Folks should enter the plaza area from 108th Ave NE between 4th St NE and 6th St NE and then head down into the parking garage to park in visitor parking on level A. They should not enter from 110th Ave NE and they also shouldn’t park under City Center Bellevue (which has their garage entrance right off of 108th Ave NE)."

After-beer Location: Rockbottom in Bellevue / sponsored by Greythorn.

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