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Cassandra with Tim Berglund
“There isn’t any central node in Cassandra. Every node is a peer, there is no master – there is no single point of failure.” Apache Cassandra can serve as both the real-time
Hadoop: Past, Present and Future with Mike Cafarella
“HDFS is going to be a cockroach – I don’t think its ever going away.” Hadoop was created in 2003. In the early years, Hadoop provided large scale data processing with MapReduce,
Data Engineering at Airbnb with Maxime Beauchemin
“One big transformation we’re seeing right now is the slow agonizing death of MapReduce.” When a company gets big enough, there is so much data to be processed that an entire data
Machine Learning in Healthcare with David Kale
“Building a model to predict disease and deploying that in the wild – the bar for success is much higher there than, say, deciding what ad to show you.” Diagnosing illness today
Open Source and Rails with Aaron Patterson
“I have a really fun time being in open source, and I want other people in the community to feel the same way as well. Programming isn’t just my job – its also my
