January 2015 Meetup


Details
The first meetup of 2015 is kindly hosted by Expedia (http://www.expedia.co.uk/) at their offices in Angel. They will also be providing food and drinks as usual.
We have two speakers for the evening, with more details coming soon.
Developing unit-testable software with Hadoop.
Elliot West -
Software Engineer at Hotels.com
Unit testing is an established software engineering practice, yet it can be more challenging to apply in the Hadoop domain. This talk examines what testing options are available with some popular frameworks and discusses in detail how we test our Hive and Cascading applications at Hotels.com.
Process Scheduling on Hadoop
James Grant - Data Warehouse Engineer at Expedia.com
Exploring how to manage data process pipelines on Hadoop. Without using cron.

January 2015 Meetup