Last night was the first meeting of the San Diego Hadoop Users Group (SD-HUG), held at Sun's SD Campus. About a dozen people were in attendance, including people with general interest in hadoop, UCSD students, Jon from Streamy, and a great group from Veoh. We had some great conversations about Hadoop, HBase, and related technologies. Ryan Lynch of Veoh.com spent some time briefing us on how they use Hadoop as part of their video hosting site. Chris Wensel (all the way down from the Bay Area) gave a presentation on Cascading.org, including some new features that let you build up smaller units of computation into larger and larger orchestrations of work. Really cool stuff. Thanks Ryan and Chris!
(Ryan presenting on the Hadoop goings-on at Veoh.com)
Ryan, Leor, and Chris
Chris and Jon