Houston Hadoop Meetup #2

The meeting was on May 2, 2011, and it was about SQL/NoSQL and Hadoop. Here are presentation slides. From now on, we will always publish the main points of each meeting as slides, possibly in advance.

The news of the Hadoopers who were present are

• Hal Martin is playing with Hadoop code and will prepare a presentation for July
• Jeremy R. Easton-Marks is building his first 5-node cluster at the Cancer Center at BCM
• Marcel Poisot is the one who registers us in the library - thank you, Marcel!
• Kumar got a Cloudera Hadoop certification

The two suggested themes for a June meetup are

• Practical uses of Hadoop, and/or
• Failing memory (mine) - please fill in

See y'all in June!