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| AWS Greg Meredith, “Agents and agency in the Internet” (Mon, Oct 14) The talk is about SpecialK/KVDB, a Scala library for writing distributed applications in an embedded DSL based on the applied Pi-calculus, focusing on two applications that are using SpecialK, Protunity and the Individual Agent. |
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| (Wed, Oct 16) In this talk from the SF Data Engineering meetup, Lead Engineer at RethinkDB, Joe Doliner, will discuss the value of RethinkDB’s flexible schemes, ease of use, and the simplicity running from a single node to a sixteen-node cluster. He will also talk about how to run your analytical queries in RethinkDB directly. |
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| RxJava: Reactive Extensions in Java and Scala (Thu, Oct 17) Reactive Extensions (Rx) is a new way of writing web apps (and many others such as Kinect ones). Originating in Microsoft .NET, it was well received by developers across languages and platforms, and now is available in many more languages, including JavaScript. Ben Christensen and Matt Jacobs will explain what Rx are and how to use them from Scala. |
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| Understanding and Managing Cassandra’s Vnodes + Under the Hood: Acunu Analytics (Wed, Oct 23) Tim Moreton and Nicolas Favre-Felix from Acunu Analytics, will talk on the concept, implementation and benefits of virtual nodes in Apache Cassandra 1.2 & 2.0, why virtual nodes are a replacement to token management, and how to use Acunu Analytics to collect event data, build OLAP-style cubes and ask SQL-like queries via a RESTful API, on top of Cassandra. |
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| Introducing Play: Building real time web applications (Wed, Oct 23) Play (aka “play framework” if you’re trying to Google it) is a web application framework that has APIs in Java and Scala. This meetup features Will Sargent, a consultant for Typesafe. |
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Top SF Bay Tech Events Weekly, October 11
Top NYC Events Weekly, October 11
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| October 2013 – Clojure Users Group Meetup (Wed, Oct 16) Marc Limotte will be describing a system we created at Climate.com for deploying immutable, versioned models. |
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| Introduction to Digital Signal Processing in Hadoop (Wed, Oct 16) In this talk Adam Laiacano will introduce the concepts of digital signals, filters, and their interpretation in both the time and frequency domain, and work through a few simple examples of low-pass filter design and application. |
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| (Sat, Oct 19) The goal of the Mobile Payments Hackathon is to encourage the development of mobile payments technology and provide developers with the tools and inspiration they need to build awesome products that improve the payments industry. |
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| (Tue, Oct 22) MongoDB is great for Big Data, but it’s also great for work on the other end of the scale — call it “Wee Data”. This type of data is far more common than Big Data scenarios… in fact, just about every project starts with it. |
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| (Sat, Oct 26) Cyrus Innovation & Flatiron School are excited to be co-sponsors of the first annual RubyMotion Conference in New York City.Take advantage of the opportunity to surround yourself with the local RubyMotion community for exciting conversations, informative presentations, case studies and open space. |
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Top SF Bay Tech Events Weekly, September 11
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| (Thu, Sep 12) Rod Johnson has made a splash in the Scala community with his ScalaDays 2013 keynote in New York. He listed examples of Scala being opaque and hardcore FP folks communicating in Haskell as an obstacle to widespread adoption, and called for stability and understanding of “the average programmer.” |
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| (Thu, Sept 19) Alexandr Podkhaliuzin will talk about the popular Scala plugin in the popular IntelliJ IDE. Alexandr Podkhaliuzin is the lead of Scala plugin for IntelliJ IDEA team. |
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| (Tue, Sep 24) Hans Dockter, the founder of Gradle, will tells us about why this new build system matters to Android developers. This new build system has been developed as a Gradle plugin by the Google Android team. |
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| (Wed, Sep 25) Michael Kjellman, Software Engineer at Barracuda Networks will present Apache Cassandra |
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| (Mon, Sept 30) The presenter will be Andreas Ehn, Co-founder, CTO and board member at Wrapp, Former CTO of Spotify |
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| (Nov 11-13) QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams. To get a discount, sign up and use promo code: g33ktalk100 |
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Top NYC Tech Events Weekly, September 11
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| (Thu, Sep 12) From the blogosphere to news stories to Meetups to OpenStack Summits, the topic of embracing the Amazon Web Services API and architecture as a part of the OpenStack project is a hot topic. |
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| (Tue, Sep 17) This will be a hands-on introduction to Slick, Typesafe’s innovative database library. The presenters will look at concepts and write live code. |
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| (Tue, Sep 17) Tal Galili will discuss creating beautiful trees of clusterings with R (+a bonus). John will discuss streaming data analysis and online learning. |
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| (Wed, Sep 25) Mike Dalessio is the co-author of the Nokogiri gem. He helps run Pivotal Labs NYC practice and writes code for fun and profit. |
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| (Thu, Sep 26) “SQL on Hadoop” has become one of the most popular big data themes of 2013. Why all the hype? Join us at this meet-up to learn |
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Top NYC Tech Events Weekly, September 6
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| (Tue, Sep 10) Mahesh will empower us with his awesome knowledge of Erlang and outline the influence of Lisp & Prolog on this very unique and exceptional language. |
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| (Thu, Sep 12) From the blogosphere to news stories to Meetups to OpenStack Summits, the topic of embracing the Amazon Web Services API and architecture as a part of the OpenStack project is a hot topic. |
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| (Tue, Sep 17) This will be a hands-on introduction to Slick, Typesafe’s innovative database library. The presenters will look at concepts and write live code. |
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| (Tue, Sep 17) Tal Galili will discuss creating beautiful trees of clusterings with R (+a bonus). John will discuss streaming data analysis and online learning. |
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Top SF Bay Tech Events Weekly, September 6
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| (Mon, Sept 9) The September SF Metrics Meetup features Jeff Weinstein from Groupon and Mikhail Panchenko from Opsmatic. |
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| (Mon, Sep 9) In this introduction to Scala, Dianne Marsh will demonstrate how you can ease yourself into this language. She will also compare Scala to Java. |
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| (Tue, Sep 24) Hans Dockter, the founder of Gradle, will tells us about why this new build system matters to Android developers. This new build system has been developed as a Gradle plugin by the Google Android team. |
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| (Wed, Sep 25) Michael Kjellman, Software Engineer at Barracuda Networks will present Apache Cassandra |
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| (Nov 11-13) QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams. To get a discount, sign up and use promo code: g33ktalk100 |
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Top NYC Tech Events Weekly, August 30
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| (Mon, Sep 2) Tal Galili, will show you a few programming skills from Creating beautiful trees of clusterings to updating R. Mr. Tal Galili is an applied statistician and an enthusiastic R user. He holds a masters degree in biostatistics and is a lecturer for statistics courses at Tel Aviv University, while working on his PhD in statistics there. |
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| Tue, Sep 10) Mahesh will empower us with his awesome knowledge of Erlang and outline the influence of Lisp & Prolog on this very unique and exceptional language. |
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| (Tue, Sep 17) This will be a hands-on introduction to Slick, Typesafe’s innovative database library. The presenters will look at concepts and write live code. |
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| (Thu, Sep 26) “SQL on Hadoop” has become one of the most popular big data themes of 2013. Why all the hype? Join us at this meet-up to learn |
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Top SF Bay Tech Events Weekly, August 30
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| (Tue, Sep 3) Presenters: Oscar Boykin and Sam Ritchie (of Twitter). Introduction to Summingbird. Come learn about streaming map/reduce at Twitter! |
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| (Wed, Sept 4) Max Hirschhorn will give an overview of the (prototype) F# driver for MongoDB. One aspect of F# is that it allows for language-oriented programming, which is the concept of defining new language constructs that are well-suited for solving or expressing a particular problem. |
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| (Thu, Sep 5) Allen Chang, a speaker at Scala FunConf, a graduate student in UCSB, and an intern at Box, will present an overview of Scalaz. |
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| (Tue, Sep 17) This presentation introduces the audience to the power of Gradle through many real-world examples that are demonstrated live. By the end of the presentation, you’ll understand how Gradle helps to elegantly solve the challenges that we face in our daily builds. |
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| (Wed, Sep 25) Michael Kjellman, Software Engineer at Barracuda Networks will present Apache Cassandra |
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| (Nov 11-13) QCon empowers software development by facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in the developer community. QCon is designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams. To get a discount, sign up and use promo code: g33ktalk100 |
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Top SF Bay Tech Events Weekly, August 22
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| (Thu, Aug 22) This will be an introductory talk by Niall O’Higgins on Node.JS. Niall O’Higgins is co-founder of FrozenRidge – a software and services company specializing in Node.JS and MongoDB. He’s also the author of the O’Reilly book “MongoDB and Python”, is a 10gen “MongoDB Master” and the primary maintainer of Strider, an open source continuous deployment platform (written in Node.JS). |
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| (Thu, Aug 22) Come and learn about what is new in ECMAScript in the upcoming sixth edition of ECMAScript. ECMAScript is the standard that governs the JavaScript programming language—includes a bevy of syntactic improvements. |
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| (Thu, Aug 29) A monitoring system is arguably the most crucial system to have in place when administering and tweaking the performance of any database system. In this talk, Geoffrey Anderson will discuss how Box made a shift from the Cacti monitoring system and other various shell scripts to OpenTSDB and the changes made to our servers and daily interaction with monitoring to increase our agility in identifying and addressing changes in database behavior. Geoffrey Anderson is a Database Operations Engineer at Box where he specializes in database administration, optimization, and tooling for MySQL and HBase. |
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| (Wed, Sept 4) Max Hirschhorn will give an overview of the (prototype) F# driver for MongoDB. One aspect of F# is that it allows for language-oriented programming, which is the concept of defining new language constructs that are well-suited for solving or expressing a particular problem. |
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Top NYC Tech Events Weekly, August 22
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| (Wed, Aug 28) Agile development has been around for quite a while now. But many organizations have struggled to scale its techniques to large teams. The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) bridges the gap from small teams to large scale development efforts while also merging technical best practice with Agile project management best practice. |
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| (Thu, Aug 29) Are you ready for Hadoop 2.0? It is approaching quickly. A defining characteristic of Hadoop 2.0 is its next generation resource management framework called YARN. Learn about it at this meetup! |
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