We were lucky enough to team up with Powerset this week for a tech presentation on Hbase, discussing structured storage and Apache’s Hadoop project.
For those of you unfamiliar with Hbase, it’s all about storing massive amounts of data once you’re past the capacities of your conventional database. Hbase is an open-source implementation of bigtable storage, and is quickly growing popular among startups that are gathering and organizing lots of data (like Rapleaf!).
We had over 80 engineers in attendance at Rapleaf Headquarters in downtown SF. Jim Kellerman from Powerset started off the presentations, and then Bryan from Rapleaf rounded off the night with his own talk on Hbase. The audience also posed some great questions. Overall, it was a tremendous success and we hope to host many more tech community events in the near future.
Pictures from the evening along with links to the full presentation video are below. Also included are the presentations themselves. Special thanks to the folks at Powerset for helping pull this off, and also to the guests that made it such an awesome event.
Part I: http://www.vimeo.com/445542
Part II: http://www.vimeo.com/445554
Part III: http://www.vimeo.com/445569
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