Hadoop Training @ Hadoop Summit - Early Bird Discount Expires Soon!

2010-05-11 Thread Christophe Bisciglia
Hadoop Fans, just a quick note about training options at the Hadoop Summit. There are discounts expiring soon, so if you planned to attend, or didn't know, we want to make sure you stay in the loop. We're offering certification courses for developers and admins, as well as an introduction to Hadoo

Announcement: Hadoop Training - new courses (Hive and HBase), new locations, and discounts

2010-04-13 Thread Christophe Bisciglia
Hadoop Fans, we wanted to share some news with the Hadoop community about new upcoming courses, new locations, and a substantial discount on next week's session in the Bay Area. We're excited to offer an extended sysadmin course and new courses on Hive and HBase at this year's Hadoop Summit. You c

Announcement: New Training Offering: Hadoop for System Administrators

2010-02-10 Thread Christophe Bisciglia
Hadoop Fans, we have scheduled additional developer sessions in both the bay area and NYC. Also, due to popular demand, we'll be offering a public sysadmin training session immediately following our March developer session in the Bay Area. If this goes well, we'll make this a regular offering. Als

Job Post: Cloudera Hiring Hadoop Training Instructors!

2010-02-01 Thread Christophe Bisciglia
Hadoop Fans, if you've tried to register for any training sessions recently, you'll notice that we've been sold out. We're sorry about that, and as such, we'll be brining on more people to help teach the growing community about the power of Hadoop. Do you love sharing your experience with others? H

Interested in Hadoop Training outside the US? Let us know!

2010-01-25 Thread Christophe Bisciglia
NOTE: Please forward this message to local use groups, especially those that might be less active on the core Apache mailing lists. Feel free to translate into local languages. Hadoop Fans, Over the next year, you'll see new options for Hadoop training and certification from Cloudera. One of the

Announcement: Hadoop Training in February (Bay Area) and March (NYC)

2010-01-12 Thread Christophe Bisciglia
Hadoop Fans, We're looking forward to a full house at our upcoming sessions in January (Bay Area) and February (NYC). For those of you who have inquired recently, we're sorry we sold out so early this month! It's amazing to see the community growing so quickly. To that end, we're happy to announce

Announcement: Cloudera Hadoop Training - Featuring Tom White and the Facebook Data Team

2009-12-21 Thread Christophe Bisciglia
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 al

[Job Posting] Solutions Architect at Cloudera

2009-11-07 Thread Christophe Bisciglia
Hadoop Fans, we're growing again, and wanted to let the Hadoop community know. If you enjoy working with Hadoop, are excited by doing cool things with interesting data, and have experience working with customers, we'd like to hear from you. For this role, experience writing Mapreduce, Hive and/or

Hadoop World: NYC - Speakers and Schedule Up - New: Lightning Talks at Welcome Reception!

2009-09-15 Thread Christophe Bisciglia
Hadoop Fans, we're getting down to the wire for Hadoop World. We couldn't be happier with how the schedule has come together. For a full list of speakers and registration details, see http://www.cloudera.com/hadoop-world-nyc - and if you plan to attend, register this week, as prices go up $100 aft

Announcement: Cloudera Hadoop Training in San Francisco (August 26-28)

2009-08-13 Thread Christophe Bisciglia
Hadoop Fans, please pardon the short notice, but we wanted to let you know that we are offering a 3 day training program at the end of the month in San Francisco. There is a $300 discount for those who register before 11PM PDT on August 20th. Day 1: Hadoop Basics + Ecosystem and Deployment (data ce

Job Posting: Sales Engineer @ Cloudera

2009-08-07 Thread Christophe Bisciglia
Hadoop Fans, We are looking to hire a sales engineer based in the bay area that can travel as needed. Following is the full job description, but if you know your Hadoop, have experience working with customers, and are excited about helping new enterprise users work with lots of data, please read on

Hadoop Meetup at ApacheCon US

2009-08-04 Thread Christophe Bisciglia
s, tips, tricks, etc. If you'd like to grab a 10 minute speaking slot, just drop me a note (and if you need more time, just let me know). More details and RSVP here: http://www.meetup.com/hadoop/calendar/11038623/ Cheers, Christophe On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Christophe Bisciglia wrote:

Extending Submission Deadline for Hadoop Fans on the East Coast

2009-07-30 Thread Christophe Bisciglia
Hadoop Fans, we have had a few requests to extend the submission deadline through the weekend. To be fair, rather than make exceptions, we wanted to let everyone know we are accepting proposals until August 3rd at 10AM PDT. We've also been really impressed with the number of international registra

Are you coming to ApacheCon US in Oakland this November?

2009-07-29 Thread Christophe Bisciglia
Hey Hadoop Fans, after working with the ApacheCon organizers, it's clear there is way more interest in Hadoop than can fit into a single day - even with it's own track. Specifically, there were a lot of great talks from sub projects that didn't make the final schedule, and it's clear there are all

Re: August Bay Area HUG

2009-07-14 Thread Christophe Bisciglia
*same* event. Address is posted here: http://www.meetup.com/Bay-Area-Hadoop-User-Group-HUG/calendar/10877366/ Christophe On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Christophe Bisciglia wrote: > Hadoop Fans, > > We're looking forward to seeing many of you at tomorrows meetup - > especial

August Bay Area HUG

2009-07-14 Thread Christophe Bisciglia
Hadoop Fans, We're looking forward to seeing many of you at tomorrows meetup - especially folks from San Francisco and the North Bay. Next month, we're going to host the meetup in the South Bay. We'll alternate locations to make it easy for everyone to attend occasionally, regardless of where you

Announcement: Hadoop Summit East Early Registration Deadline

2009-07-13 Thread Christophe Bisciglia
Hadoop Fans, Are you joining us for the Hadoop Summit East in NYC? Have you registered yet? If not, we wanted to drop a quick note to let you know that the early registration fee is increasing from $100 to $150 on July 15th (at 10AM PDT). The early registration fee will increase again on July 31st

Re: Extracting data from HDFS and displaying stats to a webpage

2009-07-08 Thread Christophe Bisciglia
Hey Usman, your second approach is on the right track. You don't want to have your end users interacting directly with HDFS. The latency is too high, and it wasn't designed for this. OTOH, running a "script" (a mapreduce, streaming, pig or hive job) on a regular basis and populating a database tab

Announcement: Cloudera Hadoop Training in Los Angeles

2009-07-08 Thread Christophe Bisciglia
Hadoop Fans, several of you have asked us to come to LA. We've heard you. We'll be teaming up with our friends at Fox Interactive Media to offer Hadoop Training at what might just be the coolest venue *ever* for technical training: The Fox Lot - where they make the movies... Attendees will have ti

Announcing: MRUnit - A tool for debugging and unit testing MapReduce programs

2009-07-03 Thread Christophe Bisciglia
Hadoop Fans, I just wanted to drop the community a quick note about a new tool we just released called MRUnit: http://bit.ly/J0AjZ MRUnit helps bridge the gap between MapReduce programs and JUnit by providing a set of interfaces and test harnesses, which allow MapReduce programs to be more easily