Intro to Google Cloud Datastore and Mapreduce is dead - long life to Data Flow

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Schedule:

6:00-6:50pm Networking and light food

6:50-7:00pm Announcements

7:00-7:45pm Introduction to Google Cloud Datastore - Sandeep Dinesh

7:45-8:30pm Mapreduce is dead - long life to Dataflow - Francesc Campoy Flores

Title: Introduction to Google Cloud Datastore

Abstract: Learn more about Google Cloud Datastore and how it helps your application scale without worry. Understand why you would want to use Cloud Datastore, how to use it, and methods to tune the Datastore for maximum performance. If all goes well, we will build a sample application live!

Bio: Sandeep is a Developer Advocate for the Google Cloud Platform. He started coding and creating websites when he was 12 and hasn't stopped. Sandeep is passionate about building easy-to-use products people love. Before Google, he founded an IoT startup in agriculture and developed educational HTML5 games. Sandeep loves video games, making music, and martial arts.

Title: Mapreduce is dead - long life to Dataflow

Abstract: The talk explains what Google Cloud Dataflow, one of the latest released products of the Google Cloud Platform.Dataflow is the result of many years of research on data processing models done internally at Google,and it has the power to revolutionize how you process your own data now.

We will cover the basics of MapReduce, then point out some of the limitations of the model, and showhow Dataflow solves all of them.
The goal of the session is to give you an understanding of the possibilities the Google Cloud Platformoffers in terms of Big Data processing. Google has been doing this for more than a decade, and wewant everyone to share the experience.

Bio: Francesc Campoy Flores is a Developer Advocate for Go and the Cloud at Google. He joined the Go team in 2012 and since then he has written some considerable didactic resources and traveled the world attending conferences, organizing live courses, and meeting fellow gophers. He joined Google in 2011 as a backend software engineer working mostly in C++ and Python, but it was with Go that he rediscovered how fun programming can be.

You can find him on twitter as @francesc.