F#/Analytics: Much Ado About Hadoop

Hadoop is a hot topic right now, and Microsoft is betting that Hadoop and SQL Server will go together like peanut butter and chocolate. This presentation will spend a little bit of time on the theory behind Hadoop, but the rest will be a demo-driven look at how to get a handle on Hadoop before somebody introduces it into your enterprise. We will be coding in F#, which is like, an ice cream sunday to go with your peanut butter cup, to carry an analogy to far...

Kevin Feasel is a database engineer at ChannelAdvisor, where he specializes in SSIS development, performance tuning, and pulling rabbits out of hats on demand. He is a contributing author to Tribal SQL ( http://www.tribalsql.com ). A resident of Durham, North Carolina, he can be found cycling the trails along the triangle whenever the weather's nice enough.