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MapReduce and Its Discontents
Dean Wampler discusses the strengths and weaknesses of MapReduce, and the newer variants for big data processing: Pregel and Storm.
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The Impedance Mismatch is Our Fault
Stuart Dabbs Halloway explains what the impedance mismatch is and what can be done to solve it in the context of RDBMS, OOP, and NoSQL.
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View Server: Delivering Real-Time Analytics for Customer Service
Richard Tibbetts presents a three-tier architecture for real-time data staging analysis, storing the results and delivering them to clients as a service accessible through a variety of interfaces.
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Saving the World (from|with) Big Data
Bruce Durling discusses the impact of cloud computing on the climate and what can be done to reduce the amount of CO2 generated by data centers in order to process big data.
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Hadoop: Scalable Infrastructure for Big Data
Parand Tony Darugar overviews Hadoop, its processing model, the associated ecosystem and tools, discussing some real-life uses of Hadoop for analyzing and processing large amounts of data.
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Caching, NoSQL & Grids - What the Banks Can Teach Us
John Davies shares insight into SQL, NoSQL, grid, virtualization and caching technologies from his personal experience using them in financial institutions.
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Need Some Cache? Redis in Depth
Chris Meadows introduces Redis, explaining what it is good for, what does it take to be run, and what’s under the hood through a social networking code example.
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Connecting Millions of Mobile Devices to the Cloud
Damien Katz explains how Couchbase Syncpoint provides real time data synchronization capabilities between multiple mobile devices and the cloud.
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The Database as a Value
Rich Hickey discusses the complexity introduced by a database into a system, and a way to deal with it by using Datomic. He also discusses immutability, epochal time, and persistent data structures.
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Working with MIG
David Dawson and Marcus Kern share lessons learned creating a high-performance mass audience participation system using NoSQL.
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Future of Data Architecture: NoSQL, Big Data, Linked Data and the Cloud
In this panel, Siddharth Anand, Dwight Merriman, Ashish Thusoo, Damien Katz, Tom Wilkie and Akmal Chaudhri (moderator) answer questions on NoSQL from the audience.
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Choose the "Right" Database and NewSQL: NoSQL Under Attack
Talk #1: Stefan Edlich suggests choosing a NoSQL DB after answering about 70 questions in 6 categories, and building a prototype. Talk #2: Edlich presents NewSQL solutions counteracting NoSQL.