Seattle Hadoop / Scalability / NoSQL Meetup: Radiation Measurements w/ CouchDB

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This meetup focuses on Scalability and technologies to enable handling large amounts of data: Hadoop, HBase, distributed NoSQL databases, and more!

There's not only a focus on technology, but also everything surrounding it including operations, management, business use cases, and more.

[b]This Month[/b]

Mike Miller w/ Cloudant will talk about using CouchDB to measure radiation remnants from the Japanese reactor incident. Awesome!

We've had great success in the past, and are growing quickly! Including guests from Twitter, LinkedIn, Amazon, Cloudant, 10gen/MongoDB, and more.

Our format is flexible: We usually have speakers who talk for ~30 minutes each and then do Q+A, plus discussion.

There'll be beer afterwards, of course! Fierabend, 422 Yale Ave N

Meetup Location:
Amazon HQ, Von Vorst Building, 426 Terry Ave N., Seattle, WA 98109-5210

NOTE: This building is in the 'back right' of the area with the stairs.

Doors open 30 minutes ahead of show-time. Please show up at least 15 minutes early out of respect for our first speaker.

Driving Directions

From I-5 Northound and Southbound:

Take exit 167 for Mercer St toward Seattle Center
Keep left at the fork, follow signs for Fairview Ave/Denny Way
Turn left at Fairview Ave N
Turn right at Harrison St
Take the 2nd right onto Terry Ave N

From Downtown (Columbia Building):

Head southwest on Columbia St toward 4th Ave
Take the 1st right onto 4th Ave
Turn right at Virginia St
Turn left at the 3rd cross street onto Westlake Ave
Turn right at Harrison St
Take the 1st left onto Terry Ave N
Parking: Visitor parking is available in the underground parking garage on Harrison and Terry (directly under the Amazon building) there is also street parking and surface parking lots.