MapR, Solbase and Mahout

We have an exciting set of speakers for October. It should be a very interesting meetup so please make it if you can. Look forward to seeing you there!

Schedule:

6:30 - 7:00 - Socialize over food and drink

7:00 - 9:00 - Presentations

• MapR / Mahout presented by Ted Dunning (http://www.mapr.com/company/management-team#teddunning) - MapR (http://www.mapr.com/) is a Hadoop distribution that has some interesting differences from the Apache and Cloudera distributions, particularly at the file system layer. Ted will be presenting on the internals of MapR. Ted is also one of the authors of the recently released Mahout in Action (http://www.amazon.com/Mahout-Action-Sean-Owen/dp/1935182684/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317831312&sr=8-1) book and will also be sharing some insights on using Mahout.

• Solbase presented by Matt Green and Kyungseog Oh - Solbase is an exciting new open-source real-time search system being developed at Photobucket.com to service the over 30 million daily search requests Photobucket handles. Solbase is based upon Lucene (http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html), Solr (http://lucene.apache.org/solr/) and HBase (http://hbase.apache.org/). This talk will discuss the basics of search technology and then give brief over view of Lucene, Solr and HBase. The discussion will then move on to an in-depth overview of Solbase itself, the obstacles that were overcome in its development, its basic architecture, and the current status and results of the project.

About the speakers:

Ted Dunning

Ted is currently Chief Application Architect at MapR. Ted has also held Chief Scientist positions at Veoh Networks, ID Analytics and at MusicMatch, (now Yahoo Music). Ted is responsible for building the most advanced identity theft detection system on the planet, as well as one of the largest peer-assisted video distribution systems and ground-breaking music and video recommendations systems. Ted has 15 issued and 15 pending patents and contributes to several Apache open source projects including Hadoop, Zookeeper and Hbase. He is also a committer for Apache Mahout. Ted earned a BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado; a MS degree in computer science from New Mexico State University; and a Ph.D. in computing science from Sheffield University in the United Kingdom. Ted also bought the drinks at one of the very first Hadoop User Group meetings.

Matt Green

As Principal Engineer at Photobucket.com, Matt has over 17 years of software development experience in the telecom and web industries.

Previously a software architect at companies such as Level 3 and Avaya, Matt has been working in the web world at Photobucket for the last 4 years. Matt has a wide breadth of experience in many languages and environments, from C++ to Java and PHP and is one of the primary contributors and architects of the soon to be released Solbase project. Matt holds a Bachelors Degree and a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Kyungseog Oh

Kyungseog joined Photobucket in 2008 as a developer to take a role on the search team.

During this time, Kyungseog has become the search guru within Photobucket and led the migration of a stand-alone Lucene search engine into a distributed architecture using Solr. Prior to Photobucket, Kyungseog developed web analytic software at Omniture.

Kyungseog holds a Bachelors Degree and a Masters Degree in Computer Science from University of Utah.