Hadoop Fans, it's been a few weeks since we've hosted public training sessions, and now we're happy to announce three sessions in three cities over the next three months. These sessions are all targeted at developers, and we'll be adding more sessions in the coming weeks based on demand. You can always find a full list at http://www.cloudera.com/hadoop-training
January 19-21, Bay Area, CA - http://www.eventbrite.com/event/511080656 February 3-5, New York, NY - http://www.eventbrite.com/event/511180956 March 10-12, Washington DC Area - http://www.eventbrite.com/event/517223028 All of these sessions offer a 10% discount for booking in advance (timeframe varies by session), so if you register before the holidays, you'll save a few bucks. As some of you may have heard, Tom White, author of O'Reilly's "Hadoop: The Definitive Guide," has recently relocated to the Bay Area. We couldn't be happier to have him in the Cloudera office more, and are excited to have him leading more of our local training sessions. Tom will be leading the January 19-21 session, so if you've found his book helpful, this is a great chance to learn more from the source. We're also thrilled to be working with Facebook. Many of our customers have asked us for more exposure to how Hadoop and related technologies are used in the "real world." As one of the largest Hadoop users, and surely the largest Hive user, Facebook offers a unique perspective on how to leverage huge volumes of data across an organization. During next month's session in the Bay Area, Facebook will give a tech talk (over lunch) on how they use Hadoop and Hive, and go into detail about some of the cool things their data team does with the technology. Lastly, if you're interested in working at Facebook, this is a great chance to get more information, meet some of their most avid Hadoop users and demonstrate you skills by taking the Cloudera Certified Hadoop Developer exam. Cheers, Christophe -- get hadoop: cloudera.com/hadoop online training: cloudera.com/hadoop-training blog: cloudera.com/blog twitter: twitter.com/cloudera
