April Hadoop Users Group MeetUp

Folks,

We are pleased to confirm details for our April MeetUp at Facebook's offices on 25th April.

PLEASE NOTE: For Security and Access, you must register for this event via the follow link to ensure entry:

https://hadoopmeetupinlondon.splashthat.com/

We are really excited about this MeetUp with 3 fantastic talks lined up for us from our great presenters:

CORENTIN GUILLO - CEO AND FOUNDER OF BIRD.I

Corentin Guillo is CEO and founder of Bird.i (hibirdi.com), a platform for up-to-date earth observation data supplied by satellite operators, drones and aircrafts - all from a scalable cloud platform accessible either through a web frontend or through APIs. Corentin is a space engineer with years of experience in the aerospace & satellite business.

TYLER BULUT - SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT FACEBOOK

Tyler Bulut is an engineering manager at Facebook. The teams he supports build large scale distributed systems, that are parts of Facebook’s data infrastructure platform, with the goals of supporting scheduling, resource management, and massive parallel computation for batch applications, such as data warehouse, graph analytics, and data science. The key systems his teams develop and contribute are Apache Spark, Apache Giraph, and a Facebook in-house scheduler.

JERRY CHEN - SOFTWARE ENGINEER AT FACEBOOK

Jerry Chen is a software engineer at Facebook, working on realtime stream processing. He initiated and leads the effort to build Stylus, a high performance, scalable and fault tolerant stream processing system at Facebook. This system has been the enabler for many mission critical stream processing applications, such as Mobile Analytics, Instagram Trending, Page Insights, Chorus, etc. He also help started Turbine, a stream processing management platform. Before that, he managed the HBase and HDFS team at Facebook. Under his lead, HBase grew from an experimental project into a critical storage system powering Messages, as well as search index, operational datastore, etc. And HDFS team is powering one of the world's largest Hadoop clusters. Jerry Chen got his MSEE degree from University of Minnesota.

Given capacity and expected interest in this event, this will based on first registration basis- please use the link:

https://hadoopmeetupinlondon.splashthat.com/

Look forward to seeing you next week!

HUGUK Team.