[TriLUG] Fwd: Monday February 20 Triangle Java Users Group meeting

[Pete Soper]

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Subject: 	[Juglist] Monday February 20 Triangle Java Users Group meeting
Date: 	Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:54:48 -0600
From: 	Tim Dugan <tdugan at gmail.com>
To: 	juglist at lists.trijug.org



  Triangle Java Users Group presents:

    Cassandra: Radical NoSQL Scalability

  Presented by:

    Tim Berglund

  Monday February 20, 2012
  6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
  Red Hat/Raleigh
  1801 Varsity Drive, Raleigh, NC
  TriJUG (http://trijug.org) meetings are hosted by JBoss

  Presentation summary:

    Want to go deep on a popular NoSQL database? Cassandra is a scalable,
    highly available, column-oriented data store in use at Netflix, Twitter,
    Reddit, Rackspace, and other web-scale operations. It offers a 
compelling
    combination of a rich data model, a robust deployment track record, and
    a sound architecture, making it a good choice of NoSQL databases to
    study first.

    We'll talk about Cassandra's data model, look at its query idioms, talk
    about how to deploy it, and look at use cases in which it is an 
appropriate
    data storage solution. We'll study its origins in the Amazon Dynamo 
project
    and Google's BigTable, and learn how its architecture helps us 
achieve the
    gold standard of scalability: horizontal scalability on commodity 
hardware.
    You'll leave prepared to begin experimenting with Cassandra immediately
    and planning its adoption in your next project.

  About the Speaker:

    Tim is a full-stack generalist and passionate teacher who loves coding,
    presenting, and working with people. He believes the best developer
    is one who is well-informed of specifics and can also make deep
    connections between software development and the broader world.
    He has recently been exploring non-relational data stores, continuous
    deployment, and how software architecture should resemble an ant colony.

    His firm, the August Technology Group, helps clients with product
    development, technology consulting, and technology upgrade projects
    atop the JVM. The August Group's technology preferences reflect the
    generalist sensibilities of its founder, and its development practices
    are always lightweight, self-improving, and humanizing by design.

    Tim is a speaker internationally and on the No Fluff Just Stuff tour in
    the United States, and is co-president of the Denver Open Source User
    Group in the Denver area, co-author of the DZone Clojure RefCard,
    co-presenter of the best-selling O'Reilly Git Master Class, co-author
    of Building and Testing with Gradle, and a member of the O'Reilly
    Expert Network.

    He lives in Littleton, CO with the wife of his youth and their three
    children.

  Agenda:

   6:30 - 7:00 -- Meet, Talk, Pizza&  soft drinks
   7:00 - 7:15 -- JUG Business and Announcements, including "share a job"
                       (Recruiters welcome)
   7:15 - 8:15 -- Presentation
   8:15 - 8:30 -- Discussion with Presenter
   8:30        -- Book Raffle
   9:00        -- Doors close


  Admission:

   Paid-up members of TriJUG may attend without additional charge.
   Non-members are asked to pay $5 per meeting. However, if you are
   either a full time student or unemployed, then we ask only $2 per
   meeting. Membership for 12 months is $40 and $15 respectively.

  DIRECTIONS to meeting place at Red Hat/Raleigh

   Google Maps:http://tinyurl.com/trijug-meeting-place

   From the Raleigh Beltline:

     Take the Western Blvd exit east toward downtown Raleigh. After
crossing Gorman Street turn right onto Varsity Drive. After crossing
Avent Ferry Road and Main Campus Drive, Red Hat's main entrance is on
the left. Parking is just beyond the entrance: a left into the parking
deck. Come back out of the deck, follow the sidewalk to the right and
back to the main entrance. The meeting room is to the left after
entering the main lobby.
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