I attended past 4 yrs and spoke last year at SCALE, fantastic event. Its a great audience, heavy sysadmin slant. This year will be attending as well as sponsoring most likely, so down to help out in whatever community efforts are needed.
Will also be sponsoring and spreading some bigtop goodness at PuppetConf coming up in a couple weeks, putting together some material for puppet folkal to drum up more interest in the bigtop puppet 3.x efforts. Cos, definitely agree with bigger picture comment, we see bigtop as much about setting best practices for integration/interfacing between data processing tooling vs just packaing/deployment of Hadoop fam -----Original Message----- From: Peter Linnell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 12:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Bigtop Talks @ Strata and SCALEX On Wed, 3 Sep 2014 11:09:33 -0700 Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 :)? Agreed there. I'm looking at the bigger picture too. > > 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. Agreed there too. Strata has a business focus, so I'd plan on using that angle as well. > > 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 I'll take a look soon. SCALEX is definitely more technical and much more like the earlier Hadoop summits. e,g developer/devop oriented. I liked SCALEX just from an attendee perspective. Lots of good deep talks from real subject matter experts on all kinds of subjects, no marketing fluff. > > 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
