Come to the DC Hadoop Users Group meeting 25 Jan!!

Hear from Doug Cutting and Todd Lipcon unique Hadoop technical capabilities

Join the local DC community at a Hadoop Users Group meeting on Wed, Jan 25th from 6-9pm at The National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, 13th floor, Washington, DC. The event will feature Doug Cutting and Todd Lipcon each discussing a variety of Hadoop technical capabilities, as well as taking Q A from the audience.

Doug is the creator of numerous successful open source projects, including Lucene, Nutch and the co-creator of Apache Hadoop and will speak this evening specifically on Avro. Doug joined Cloudera in 2009 from Yahoo! where he was a key member of the team that built and deployed a production Hadoop storage and analysis cluster for mission-critical business analytics.

Todd is an engineer at Cloudera, where he primarily contributes to open source distributed systems in the Apache Hadoop ecosystem. His discussion will be geared around Accumulo / HBase. He is a Project Management Committee member on the Apache Hadoop, HBase, and Thrift projects.

Wed, Jan 25th 6-9pm
529 14th Street, 13th floor, Washington, DC
Metro accessible or parking in between 13th and 14th streets is best

6:00 – 6:30 Networking
6:30 – 7:00 Doug Cutting discussion on Avro
7:00 – 7:30 Todd Lipcon discussion on Accumulo / HBase
7:30 – 8:00 Moderated discussion
8:00 – 9:00 Q A followed by networking

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