Big Data DC Monthly Meetup

Hello Fellow Big Data Folks -

I hope to see you at the first Big Data DC meetup next Wednesday, May 11th at 7PM. Clearspring will provide pizza and beverages for the group. Since this is our first meeting it is an opportunity for the group to determine the types of topics that our meetings should cover. Our hope is to hit all aspects of big data processing in the real world. In the future we hope to have presenters share their experiences with distributed algorithms, machine learning, probabilistic data structures, performance, operations, and so on.

I am happy to announce that the founders of FoundationDB, http://www.foundation... (http://www.foundationdb.com/)http://img1.meetupstatic.com/img/clear.gif, will be giving a talk on their experience developing a distributed key/value database. In addition to hearing from the FoundationDB team I will be giving a talk on the analytics architecture that enables Clearspring, http://clearspring.co... (http://clearspring.com/)http://img1.meetupstatic.com/img/clear.gif, to process several terabytes of new data every day.
If you are planning to attend please remember to RSVP.

Location: Clearspring Technologies
8000 Westpark Dr.
Suite 625
McLean, VA 22102

Agenda:
7:00 - 7:15 Food and Refreshments, Socialize
7:15 - 7:45 Matt Abrams - Big Data analytics at clearspring. Clearspring has developed a set of tools and systems for storing, processing, and retrieving large amounts of information in a distributed environment. This presentation will provide some insight into how we approached our big data challenges at Clearpsring.
7:45 - 8:00 - Short break
8:00 - 8:30 - FoundationDB - Building a distributed key value datastore that supports ACID transactions
8:30 - ??? - Open discussion