BDOOP Kickoff meetup

Big data is here to stay. While most of the effort during past years has focused first into building scalable data processing frameworks such as Hadoop, then into learning and developing Map/Reduce applications, and finally getting the clusters running. However, once they are deployed and running, tuning their performance and managing data becomes the challenge and the focus for this group! Itnig (http://itnig.net/)

Join us on the kickoff meetup to discuss group objectives, ideas, next talks and do some networking with other data speeders. And of course, enjoy some beers sponsored by Estrella Damm at Itnig (http://itnig.net/).

Agenda:

19:00 - Arrive at Itnig and meet other members
19:15 - Short talk: The case for Hadoop performance (by Nico Poggi)
19:35 - Discussion of group of objectives and upcoming talks
20:00 - Networking and beers

About the presenter:

Nico Poggi (@ni_po (https://twitter.com/ni_po)) is an IT professional with focus on performance and scalability of Web and Data intensive applications. He is currently leading a new research project on upcoming architectures for data processing at the Barcelona Super Computing (BSC) and Microsoft Research joint center ( http://www.bscmsrc.eu/ ). Nicolas received his PhD at the BarcelonTech university (UPC) and combines both a pragmatic approach to performance and scalability with Machine Learning techniques. His publications can be found at: http://personals.ac.upc.edu/npoggi/