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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 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 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 SF Bay Tech Events Weekly, August 3
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(Mon, Aug 12) David Pollak, founder of Lift’s, will walk us through Lift’s design decision and then see those same design decisions applied to a Clojure/ClojureScript/ |
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(Wed, Aug 14) Amit Rathore will present Domain Driven Design with Clojure – his Clojure/West talk. |
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(Thu, Aug 15) This presentation will cover the key benefits of using CoffeeScript to implement the Page Object Model framework with WebDriverJs so you can try to implement it across your organization. |
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(Wed, Aug 21) Bill Scott who is currently leading UI Engineering at PayPal (previously he did the same at Netflix and Meebo) will discuss some of PayPal’s approaches to engineering and design. |
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Top SF Bay Tech Events Weekly, July 2
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| Django -> Flask -> Scaling: Story of growing a python API company(Tue, July 2) Randall Degges will be talking about his story of starting an API company and how he scaled his architecture from first using Tastypie and Django, where it failed for him and how he utilized Flask and Amazon’s DynamoDB to scale his telephony API infrastructure. | |
| GraphX preview: Interactive Graph Processing on Spark (Tue, July 2) This meetup will feature the first public preview of GraphX, a new graph processing framework for Spark. | |
| Realtime Web Apps with AngularJS and Firebase (Tue, July 9) Anant Narayanan of Firebase will discuss how their integration with Angular makes it a breeze to synchronize data between the DOM and a server-side JSON store. | |
| Coupa presents David Williams – Tales of a 7 year old Rails app (Wed, July 10) David Williams and Sal Valverde will talk about Coupa, the 7 year old Rails application. | |
| Gradle for Android and the rest of the World by Hans Dockter (Wed, July 10) Hans Dockter will talk about the new Gradle based Build System for the Android SDK. This new build system has been developed as a Gradle plugin by the Google Android team. | |
Top SF Tech Events Weekly, Apr 3
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SF Data Mining (Wed, Apr 4)
Talks on recommendation engines including Trulia Suggest, Rich Relevance, and Pandora. |
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The SF PHP Meetup Group (Tue, Apr 9)
Varnish – How to cache your dynamic pages. |
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Bay Area HBase User Group (Thu, Apr 11)
HBase at AdRoll, Multi-tenant HBase at Y!, Compaction Improvements in HBase, and Fast Server Failover for Hadoop and HBase. |
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MongoDB San Francisco 2013 (g33ktalk discount) (Fri, May 10)
MongoDB San Francisco is an annual one-day conference in San Francisco, CA dedicated to MongoDB, the leading NoSQL database, held on May 9th. Use promo code “g33k20″ for a 20% discount! |
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SF/Bay Top Tech Events Weekly, March 18
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Client and Server-Side Backbone plus Show and Tell (Tue, Mar 19)
Spike Brehm from AirBnB will talk about Rendr, a framework on top of Backbone and Express to support rendering your backbone code on the client and the server. Come get an early look at this exciting project.Controlled Experimentation to Guide Product Innovation (Wed, Mar 20) The popularity of controlled experimentation has given birth to several companies that specialize in offering tools and services to effectively setup, manage, and monitor large-scale tests. Join this event to meet the expert from Groupon, Google, Netflix and more. Improving Productivity + HotelTonight on Scaling + Lessons on Ed-Tech (Thu, Mar 21) Join this event for some amazing talks from Paul Biggar from CircleCI, Russell Taga from HotelTonight and Jeff Scheur from NoRedInk.com on their experiences and areas of expertise. Haskell Meetup at the New Hacker Dojo (Thu, Mar 21) Come and join this event for two talks by Conal Elliott from Tabula and Steve Severance from Alpha Heavy Industries on Haskell programming language. PSD to HTML – Picking the right tools before you code (Sun, Mar 24) Web/Graphic designers join this event if you want to change your PSD files into html code! |
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SF/Bay Top Tech Events Weekly, March 11
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Facebook Search Infrastructure – the first public deep-dive demo (Wed, Mar 13)
In this talk, Sriram will cover various aspects of the search stack that supports all the search products at Facebook. The talk will cover Unicorn (an inverted index based retrieval system), indexing and ranking strategies, and some of the NLP strategies used in Graph Search. March 2013 San Francisco Hadoop User Meetup (Wed, Mar 13) Clint Sharp, the Sr. Product Manager, Big Data for Splunk, will be talking about “Using Splunk and Hadoop to deliver best-in-class Operational Intelligence and Customer Analytics”. NetflixOSS Meetup – Season 1, Episode 2 (Wed, Mar 13) Netflix has Open Sourced many components of Netflix Cloud Platform’s infrastructure over the last year – ranging from its deployment console Asgard and Simian Army Monkeys, to the Cassandra and Zookeeper clients that they use internally. Opening Windows for iOS Developers (Mon, Mar 18) This meetup we’ll be at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View and you’ll get an overview of Windows Phone and Windows 8 from the Microsoft team, then there will be some presentations from several developers who’ve been porting apps from iOS to Windows. |
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SF/Bay Top Tech Events Weekly, March 4
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Hack Night at the Dojo (Wed, Mar 6)
This is a meetup for Ruby on Rails Developers who want to build interesting scalable web applications which directly or indirectly affects everyone’s life in a positive way. The Rails for Charity group continues their work with Spokenvote. (Wed, Mar 6) This talk will, which Michele Titolo from Prolific Interactive will be present it, explains how we can all write better code; one of the easiest ways to do this is through testing. It’ll cover two popular open source frameworks, GHUnit and KIF, both of which can be automated with a CI like Jenkins. “Official” BARUG March 2013 Meeting (Mon, Mar 11) This meetup will be devoted to R and data-driven journalism. Speakers will include: Shane Shifflett, Coulter Jones, Kendall Taggart and others from the Center for Investigative Reporting. |
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SF/Bay Top Tech Events Weekly, February 25
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HBase Meetup at Intel Mission Campus (Thu, Feb 28)
Lars Hofhansl from Salesforce will talk about performance enhancements, and optimizations and important internal changes made to HBase internals in support of Salesforce use cases. James Taylor from Salesforce will talk about their newly released Phoenix SQL layer for HBase. Intel folks will talk about work they are doing on extending the HBase security model to support per cell ACLs, and transparent encryption with AES-NI, and an encryption codec framework for Hadoop Core and MapReduce. YouTube and the Role of a Data Scientist (Fri, Mar 1) Sundar Dorai-Raj of Google will demonstrate how data scientists at YouTube provide meaningful insights and help drive innovation to a rapidly changing platform that is growing by the day. SF Hack & Tell: It’s Time! (Tue, Mar 5) Join our new g33ktalk-hosted meetup to present a 5 minute demo of something you’ve built or are working on and think is awesome! There’s no special topic here, just sharing cool hacks that you think other developers will be interested in. g33ks unite! |
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