HBaseCon2016 will be on Tues. May 24, 2016 at The Village <http://www.969market.com/> on Market St. in SF. Save the date! Call for papers will go out at start of the new year. Keep an eye out.
There's a blog post up on the offheaping work that has been going on with a good while now. Lots of detail if interested. See https://blogs.apache.org/hbase/entry/offheaping_the_read_path_in Apache NiFi did a nice blog yesterday too on sticking syslog events in HBase: https://blogs.apache.org/nifi/entry/storing_syslog_events_in_hbase oao, St.Ack