Inside Look: How Next Big Sound tamed Hadoop ecosystem for Music & Publishing

Next Big Sound analyzes social, sales, and marketing signals to help Music and Publishing industries make smarter, braver decisions.

NBS receives information from 100+ sources and needed a scalable way to deal with how data from those sources changed over time. Dealing with the heterogenous nature of music analytics has required some novel solutions that go beyond the features that come for free with modern distributed databases.

Join us and Alec Zopf from NBS for an inside look at how Next Big Sound overcame these challenges through successes and failures. This event is co-hosted by Continuous Delivery, NYC (https://www.meetup.com/ContinuousDeliveryNYC/) Meetup and the FinTech Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/fintech/).

For some background reading: http://highscalability.com/blog/2014/1/28/how-next-big-sound-tracks-over-a-trillion-song-plays-likes-a.html/

Speaker Profile: Alec Zopf, Senior Data Engineer at Next Big Sound

Alec is a Senior Data Engineer at the music analytics company Next Big Sound. He is an avid music fan, a drummer for 18 years, and a biomedical and electrical engineer by training. After a stint in high-frequency trading, Alec joined Next Big Sound to help usher in a new era of advanced analytics and data warehousing for the music industry, combining data about social engagement and streaming with traditional digital sales and radio metrics to discover what drives modern music consumption.