UK Hadoop User Group Meeting

Last Tuesday the first UK Hadoop user group meeting took place in London. Johan did a great job in organizing it and speakers included Doug Cutting from Yahoo! (who leads the Hadoop project).

Here's are some links:

• Yahoo! developer network blog mentioning the event. (Includes a video of interviews with some of the presenters.)
  
• Doug Cutting: Hadoop overview
  
• Tom White: Hadoop Web Services on Amazon S3/EC2
  
• Steve Loughran: Deploying Apache Hadoop with Smartfrog
  
• Mark Butler: Distributed Lucene for Hadoop
  
• Last.fm related talks:
  • Martin Dittus: Hadoop usage at Last.fm
    
  • Elias Pampalk: Radio Log Analysis for A/B Tests
    
  • Johan Oskarsson: Hadoop: Lessons learned at Last.fm
    
  • Klaas Bosteels: Dumbo: Hadoop streaming made elegant and easy
    
  • Tim Sell: PostgreSQL to HBase Replication
    
  
  

Seems like the interesting talk by Miles Osborne on "Using Nutch and Hadoop for Natural Language Processing" is still missing on skills matter's website. I'll update this blog post when the talk is added.

Hadoop in London

August 19th there will be a Hadoop workshop somewhere in East London which some of my colleagues are helping to organize. Details can be found here. Further announcements will follow. The speakers include Doug Cutting (works at Yahoo and leads the Hadoop project). Johan and Martin will be talking about how we use Hadoop at Last.fm. Applications at Last.fm range from counting how many users listened to an artist to learning from skipping behaviour to improve our radio streams.