Hi, Merced System is sponsoring Hadoop/Avro meetup in Redwood City.
Few spots left! http://www.meetup.com/MRDesignPattern/ Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 6:30 PM Nice / Merced Systems Inc 333 Twin Dolphin Dr # 500, Redwood City, CA Agenda: *Avro* is a serialization framework developed within Apache's Hadoop project. It uses JSON for defining data types and protocols, and serializes data in a compact binary format. Its primary use is in Apache Hadoop, where it can provide both a serialization format for persistent data. We will look into specific detail of Avro usage for Map Reduce frameworks. *Detailed agenda and summaries:* - 6:00 - 6:30 - Socialize over food and beer(s) - 6:30 - 7:30 - Introduction to Avro by Scott Carey - 7:30 - 8:00 - From SQL to NOSQL in 14 days by Serge Blazhievsky - 8:00 - 9:00 - Socializing
