Do you guys think it's time to start looking at a picture bigger than Hadoop? After all, Hadoop is just an implementation detail of storage for data processing. So, why should we focus solely on that detail :)?
Another question I'd like to discuss is the content/format of the presentations. In my experience, Strata is as far from a dev. conference as it possible nowadays. All you see there is mindless hoards of marketing/sales people looking for some "deals" or else. Hence, shall the pimping be more business-like, oriented towards folks who can understand a little bit of light techno-jargon yet would appreciate how Bigtop can help them to improve their companies experience with bigdata ecosystem? And while at it breaking them loose from vendor dependencies. After all, Apache distribution of bigdata stack is still winning the mind-share, according to all those analysts. BTW, I like the proposed list of bullet-points (except for 2-nodes cluster, which doesn't sound cool enough, ya know ;). So if we'll be doing a tech. workshop, rvs & I did a presentation covering pretty much this at the last ApacheCon and slides should be available from the conference website (along w/ video of the deployment demo). Cos On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 12:01PM, jay vyas wrote: > +1 for these ideas peter... > > Why not "An introduction to the hadoop ecosystem using apache bigtop" > workshop? > > where everyone > > - builds apache hadoop, spark, pig, hbase using the gradle recipes. > - defines a custom hadoop cluster using the puppet site.csv. > - deploys bigtop (using puppet) on a two node cluster. > - runs our tests or the bigpetstore app, end to end . > > I can help you to organize the slide deck if you are interested in > presenting, possibly by making > a youtube demo that you can merge into the workshop. > > On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 12:49 AM, Peter Linnell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I wanted to bring to everyone's attention to a couple of places where I > > think we should be presenting/pimping Bigtop :-) > > > > 1. Strata in Santa Clara for January 2015, has a deadline for Sept 15 > > for submitting a proposal. > > > > 2. https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale13x is in February and I know I > > am committed to be being there for openSUSE already. > > > > I am happy to take on submitting the abstracts etc, I want some > > feedback: > > > > Does anyone else want to co-present ? I would love it if we had 2 or 3 > > speakers. > > > > What should we be highlighting? My sense is Strata and SCALEX are two > > different audiences where we would need a deeper dive at Strata and a > > higher level overview at SCALEX. > > > > I was at SCALEX last year and thought it was a great event. We might > > attract new contributors there. We could even get a .org booth and > > scare up some swag for give aways. > > > > To help both scenarios, we can definitely have access to the SUSE Big > > Data lab machines and use them for interactive demos. I have full > > access to all the underlying infra and I just used it at VMWorld to > > great effect. The lab is powerful enough to show off quite a lot of the > > Bigtop stack. > > > > Thoughts ? > > > > Thanks, > > Peter > > > > > > > -- > jay vyas
