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Lessons Learned Building Storm
Nathan Marz shares lessons learned building Storm, an open-source, distributed, real-time computation system.
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Building Applications using Apache Hadoop
Eli Collins overviews how to build new applications with Hadoop and how to integrate Hadoop with existing applications, providing an update on the state of Hadoop ecosystem, frameworks and APIs.
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Copious Data, the "Killer App" for Functional Programming
Dean Wampler supports using Functional Programming and its core operations to process large amounts of data, explaining why Java’s dominance in Hadoop is harming Big Data’s progress.
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Cloud and Big Data: Unicorns All the Way Down
Francine Bennett keynotes on using big data in the cloud.
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JavaScript as Data Processing Language & HTML5 Integration
Quentin Adam discusses the connections between NoSQL, data processing, message broking and JavaScript, and how one can quickly prototype with these tools.
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Facebook Messages: Backup & Replication Systems on HBase
Nicolas Spiegelberg discusses Facebook Messages built on top of HBase, the systems involved and the scaling challenges for handling 500TB of new data per month.
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Deleting Code at Nokia
Tom Coupland discusses some of the various technologies investigated, and in many cases deployed at Nokia including Gradle, Spring, MongoDB and Clojure.
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The Big Data Revolution
Claudia Perlich keynotes on M6D’s approach to Big Data, using data granularity to build predictive models used for user targeting, bid optimization and fraud detection.
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The Why, What and How of Open Data
Jeni Tennison explains how to evaluate an organization's data assets as potential sources of open data, and how to deal with the thorny issues of derived and personal data.
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Cloud Computing at Google
Randy Shoup details some of the pieces forming Google’s technology stack, BigTable, Megastore, Dremel, virtualization, etc. and the design principles of their their cloud-based applications.
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Architecting for High Availability
Attila Narin discusses AWS concepts: Availability Zones, RDS Multi-AZ deployments, SQS and Auto Scaling, Elastic IP, load balancing, DNS, DynamoDB, Amazon S3, etc., and EC2 best practices.
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API Conf Fireside Chat: Stephane Dubois, CEO and Founder at Xignite
Stephane Dubois shares insight in Xignite’s road building a business model providing APIs for accessing financial data.