Hadoop fans, This week we had a great SF Hadoop meetup hosted by Yelp. As usual, we used an unconference format to construct agenda topics, and broke out into separate discussion groups. About 75 people attended, and we had a dozen great discussions; some were business-focused, others very technical, and some highly theoretical:
* Learning thrift * Cluster capacity planning * Selling Hadoop to your organization * Alternate JVM languages and Hadoop * Schema / metadata management * Integration and Migration: Data warehousing, BI, and Hadoop * Abstract game theory problems and massive data sets * Hadoop monitoring / management best practices * "Oinkers anonymous"; for Pig users * Yahoo S4 and Cloudera Flume * Configuration tuning and performance * Production-level workflow tools Notes for some topics will be available at our meetup site at http://meetup.com/hadoopsf If you haven't yet come to one of our meetups, please consider trying it out next month! We need your voice to help contribute to the discussions. All members of the Hadoop community, novice or experienced, are welcome. Next month's meetup will be held Wednesday, April 13, from 6pm to 8pm. The meetup will be hosted by our friends at Twitter. Their office is at 795 Folsom St. (4th and Folsom) We will use the discussion-based "unconference" format. At the beginning of the meetup we will collaboratively construct an agenda consisting of several discussion breakout groups. All participants may propose a topic and volunteer to facilitate a discussion. All Hadoop-related topics are encouraged, and all members of the Hadoop community are welcome. Please RSVP at http://bit.ly/gkIvqH Event schedule: * 6pm - Welcome * 6:30pm - Introductions; start creating agenda * Breakout sessions begin as soon as we're ready * 8pm - Conclusion Regards, - Aaron Kimball