FreeEed technologies led to DARPA project

FreeEed technologies impressed the DARPA team and led to a contract to fight human trafficking. The full press release by the main contractor, Hyperion Gray, is quoted below. While FreeEed and Elephant Scale can't have their own press release, their involvement is fully explained.

My lab

And all of these computers are needed, and no, you cannot replace it with one Mac :) - I can tell you why.

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!