[TriLUG-announce] July 10 Meeting - Hadoop

[Bill Farrow]

Topic: Hadoop
Presenter: Kristopher Kane
When: Thursday, 10th July 2014, 7pm (pizza from 6.45pm)
Where: NC State Engineering Building II Room TBA, Centennial Campus
Parking: The parking decks and Oval Drive street parking are free after 5pm
Web: http://trilug.org/2014-07-10/hadoop

Synopis:  What is Hadoop?
The Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the
distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers
using simple programming models. It is designed to scale up from
single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local
computation and storage. Rather than rely on hardware to deliver
high-availability, the library itself is designed to detect and handle
failures at the application layer, so delivering a highly-available
service on top of a cluster of computers, each of which may be prone
to failures. (http://hadoop.apache.org)

This introduction to Hadoop will briefly cover its history and then
dive deeply into where the Hadoop ecosystem is today using the
Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP). After the history session we'll talk
about the main components, cluster operation, software development and
tie the ecosystem components together. Lastly, there will be a
demonstration of the popular tools used for data manipulation and
querying.

If you wish to follow along with the demonstration download the HDP
Sandbox VM here:
  http://hortonworks.com/products/hortonworks-sandbox/

Bio:
Kristopher Kane is a systems architect at Hortonworks and lives in
Fuquay-Varina.