Day prior Hadoop Summit: 2 talks (1. YARN deep dive 2. Data Lake best practices)

This is a unique opportunity to take advantage of the pre-Hadoop Summit event to meet fellow members from Bay Area Meetups, and thought leaders from Hortonworks.

If you are interested to attend Hadoop Summit June 3-5, you can take advantage of the promo code 14Disc20SJHugR.

5-6PM Welcome Reception for ALL Hadoop Summit Meetups

Where: Almaden Room, Hilton Hotel, 300 Almaden Boulevard
San Jose, CA 95110 (NOTE THE RECEPTION IS AT THE HILTON WHILE THE MEETUP IS NEXT DOOR AT THE MARRIOTT)

6:15-8:15PM Meetup will be held at:

Blossom Hill 2, Marriott Hotel, 301 South Market Street, San Jose, California 95113

Talk #1 by Vinayak "Vin" Sathe, Big Data Solution Architect (45 minutes)

Learn about the challenges and perspectives with regards to understanding data from a business context, discovering the "right" data, reducing time to prepare the “right” data and maintaining on-going data quality are a very important part of a data strategy.

• Underlying questions on choosing the “right” data sources

• How to reduce noise from data

• Role of data quality and governance in effectiveness of analytics

• How to improve returns on analytics?

Mr. Vinayak Sathe known as 'Vin' is a passionate learner, entrepreneur and data science professional with the mission to make the world better place. He has over 15 years of experience working with fortune 100 organizations and dynamic startups to create products and services around data to solve business problems and create value for customers. At his leisure time, he tries to find balance between high-tech and high-touch life through music, meditation and silence.

Talk #2 by Joseph Niemiec, co-author YARN book (1:15 minutes)

Attendees will get an overall view of what inspired the creation of YARN. This will detail the scalability enabled by YARN, effect on MapReduce and potential power custom app development. A review of the most critical part of YARN the 'container' will be detailed in a more basic level. Concept app MemcacheD and/or another will be demoed. Finnaly a review of new road map futures do to be out soon. If there is time a look at some crazy future thoughts with Hadoop and YARN.

• What & Why YARN
The journy that got us here and what it enables.
How YARN effects MapReduce

• How to Build YARN Apps
Basic understanding of containers
The power of Custom YARN apps
Concept MOYA - Distributed MemcacheD on YARN

• What's next for YARN
Incoming Futures
Ramblings of a Madman

• Take Aways & Q & A

Joseph Niemiec is a Big Data Solutions Engineer and one of the Authors of Apache Hadoop YARN book. His main focus is designing Hadoop solutions for many Fortune 1000 companies. In this position, Joseph has worked with customers to build multiple YARN applications providing a unique perspective on moving customers beyond batch processing, and working on YARN development directly. An avid technologist, Joseph has been focussed on technology innovations since 2001. His interest in data analytics originally started in game score optimization as a teenager, and has shifted to helping customers uptake new technology innovations such as Hadoop, and most recently building new data applications using YARN. Before working with Hadoop, Joseph worked in the Middleware space as a contractor developing SOA for a Global Fortune 100 company.