Hadoop User Group UK

For those of you who haven't seen our guest post on the Cloudera blog yet, the videos for the main talks from HUGUK #4 have been available on the Skills Matter webpage for a while now:

• Aaron Kimball (Cloudera): Introduction to Sqoop
  (slides and video)


• Tim Sell (Last.fm): Hive at Last.fm
  (slides and video)

Unfortunately there are no recordings for the short lightning talks by Ben Mankin (Karmasphere) and Gavin Heavyside (Journey Dynamics), but I'm sure they'd be happy to give you a personalized version of them at the next meetup!

The Cloudera guys kindly offered to buy some pizza and beer for all HUGUK #4 attendants. So register now if you haven't already, and feel free to come hungry and with a dry throat!

The registration page for HUGUK #4 is now finally online. Space is limited so you'll better register ASAP if you'd like to attend!

In addition to the two main talks from Aaron Kimball and Tim Sell about Sqoop and Hive, we'll also get to enjoy a lightning talk from Ben “Shevek” Mankin, the co-founder and CTO of Karmasphere. If you'd like to give a lightning talk too, just add a comment or drop me a tweet.

As announced elsewhere a few days ago, the next HUGUK will be held on the 3rd of June from 18:30 at the new Skills Matter eXchange, featuring the following two main talks:

“Introduction to Sqoop” by Aaron Kimball

-- Synopsis --

This talk introduces Sqoop, the open source SQL-to-Hadoop tool. Sqoop helps users perform efficient imports of data from RDBMS sources to Hadoop's distributed file system, where it can be processed in concert with other data sources. Sqoop also allows users to export Hadoop-generated results back to an RDBMS for use with other data pipelines.

After this session, users will understand how databases and Hadoop fit together, and how to use Sqoop to move data between these systems. The talk will provide suggestions for best practices when integrating Sqoop and Hadoop in your data processing pipelines. We'll also cover some deeper technical details of Sqoop's architecture, and take a look at some upcoming aspects of Sqoop's development roadmap.

-- Bio --

Aaron Kimball has been working with Hadoop since early 2007. Aaron has worked with the NSF and several other universities nationally and internationally to advance education in the field of large-scale data-intensive computing. He helped create and deliver academic course materials first used at the University of Washington (and later adopted by many other academic institutions) as well as Hadoop training materials used by several industry partners. Aaron has also worked as an independent consultant focusing on Hadoop and Amazon EC2-based systems. At Cloudera, he continues to actively develop Hadoop and related tools, as well as focus on training and user education. Aaron holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell University, and an M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington.

"Hive at Last.fm" by Tim Sell

-- Synopsis --

This talk is about using Hive in practice. We will go through some of the specific use cases for which Hive is currently being used at Last.fm, highlighting its strengths and weaknesses along the way.

-- Bio --

Tim Sell is a Data Engineer at Last.fm who works with Hive and Hadoop on a daily basis.

As usual we'll try to provide some free beer at the end, and anyone is welcome to give a short lightning talk after the main presentations.

The registration page should be up early next week, so please watch this space and register once the link gets published here.

Hi everyone,

As some of you might know I have moved away from London and the UK for the foreseeable future.

Unfortunately this leaves HUGUK without an organizer. If anyone wants to step up and keep the meetup alive feel free to contact me @skr.

Thanks to everyone who presented, attended, sponsored or in any other way made the events happen!

/Johan

Thanks to all who filled out the training survey in the last post. As a result Cloudera decided to host training sessions in London. See the message below from Christophe of Cloudera fame for more information.

Hadoop Fans,

Thanks for your feedback about which cities we should visit in Europe this year! Many people showed interest in London, and we're happy to offer our 3 day developer training program from June 1st to 3rd. This training session starts out with the basics, provides plenty of hands on coding experience, and takes you through the advanced features of Hadoop's APIs. It will also prepare you to take Cloudera's Certified Hadoop Developer exam.

Early bird pricing has expired, but you can use this discount code to extend that price for another week. With the discount, the cost is £1200 + VAT. You can register using this link

Thanks,
Christophe

Below is a message from Cloudera regarding Hadoop training outside the US, I thought it might be of interest to the UK community.

Hadoop Fans,

Over the next year, you'll see new options for Hadoop training and certification from Cloudera. One of the first things you'll see will be live sessions outside the US, tentatively planned for the April / May time frame.

We've seen strong interest in Hadoop on all of our international trips, so we'd like to ask for community input as we decide exactly which cities to visit next. For cities we come to, we'll offer our 3 day developer training + certification, and with sufficient interest, we may also include a 1 day training + certification program for system administrators.

If you are interested in attending one or both of these sessions, please fill out a brief survey (link below). If you're using Hadoop at work, and it's time to train more of your team, you can let us know how large of a group you have. Survey responses aren't a commitment to attend, but we may reach out to respondents before we schedule a session to get a better understanding of actual attendance.

You can fill out survey here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MKGZHG9

If you have any trouble with the survey, or are interested in a private training session, please don't hesitate to reach out directly.

Cheers,
Christophe