HBase Design Patterns by Mark Kerzner

The "HBase Design Patterns" book was presented by Mark Kerzner, one of the authors. Since the Houston Hadoop Meetup group is usually mixed, Mark started with HBase overview, and continued with a deeper dive into the book's content.

But the Big Data landscape in Houston is maturing, and this time about half of the group were Big Data professionals. Way to go!

Big Data Cartoon - Elephant gets a credit card

You may not be certain that elephants get credit cards, but one thing is for sure - credit cards get Apache Hadoop in a big way. American Express is all on it, and it sucked up all available developers, I think. VISA has great fraud identification based on Big Data. It seemed only fair to our illustrator to provide the elephant with one card at least.

Big Data Cartoon - help for cats and dogs

Encouraged by the success of our "Sparklet™ #1", we decided to merge our Big Data cartoons and supply some information with it, preferably about Spark, but also about some other interesting news in the area of Big Data. So this is Sparklet #2.

Big Data helps cats and dogs. Trupanion Inc. (NYSE: TRUP) is a direct-to-consumer monthly subscription business that provides medical insurance for cats and dogs.  They customize the insurance on the individual basis, using Big Data - see here how they do it.

Another interesting cat-like project is Tigon, and it is a serious tiger - it is an open source low-latency streaming technology, based on Hadoop, HBase, and such thrills as Tephra and Apache Twill.

Sparklets

Here is a fitting illustration for the post by Sujee Maniyam on "Understanding Spark Caching".

Readers would be pleased to know that we have teamed up with Packt Publishing to organize a Giveaway of our book HBase Design Patterns.

Three lucky winners stand a chance to win e-copy of the book. Keep reading to find out how you can be one of the Lucky One.

Overview:

• Design HBase schemas for the most demanding functional and scalability requirements 
• Optimize HBase's handling of single entities, time series, large files, and complex events by utilizing design patterns 
• Written in an easy-to-follow style, and incorporating plenty of examples, and numerous hints and tips. 

How to Enter?

All you need to do is head on over to the book page and look through the product description of the book and drop a line via the comments below this post to let us know what interests you the most about this book. It’s that simple.

Winners will get an e-copy of the Book.

Deadline 

The contest will close on February 1, 2015. Winners will be contacted by email, so be sure to use your real email address when you comment!

Hadoop goes to Harvard

There is a community of Big Data experts called Experfy, and it is "Made in Boston" and backed by Harvard Innovation Lab. They do Hadoop there, and have pretty interesting projects. This would make Hadoop quite happy.

Packt’s $5 eBonanza returns

Just got these news from Packt (of course this includes our recently published book)

Following the success of last year’s festive offer, Packt Publishing will be celebrating the Holiday
season with an even bigger $5 offer. From Thursday 18th December, every eBook and video will be available on the publisher’s website for just $5. Customers are invited to purchase as many as they like before the offer ends on Tuesday January 6th, making it the perfect opportunity to try something new or to take your skills to the next  level as 2015 begins.

With all $5 products available in a range of formats and DRM-free, customers will find great value
content delivered exactly how they want it across Packt’s website this Xmas and New Year.

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