Some North Texans are getting together on March 22nd at the Cohabitat coworking space to write some code to process Big Data. It's looking like a common theme will be Hadoop:
http://dbdmh.eventbrite.com Get started, or get farther, with your Big Data project in the company of other hackers. No speeches, just code. 1) Hadoop HelloWorld. Get a simple Hadoop job up and running on your laptop. Get familiar with the vast array of configuration settings, processes, ports and servers it can seem like Hadoop needs to perform even the simplest calculation. 2) Hadoop with Cassandra on EC2. Do some real calculations on at least a couple machines. Get advice on handling abysmal EC2 IO bandwidth and learn how to quickly spin down everything you spin up as soon as the processing is done. And help anybody stuck on #1. 3) Advanced stuff. Whatever you can imagine. And help people stuck on #1 or #2. And you're the man, dog. It's a "micro" hackathon both because of the length (just a couple of hours) and the number of people (less than 20) that the venue can easily accommodate. Did I mention it's free? Hope to see some of you there. -cks
