The first ever Boston Hadoop User Group (BHUG) meetup
Posted by Yoav Shapira on Thu, Oct 29, 2009 @ 06:48 PM
Last night HubSpot hosted the first-ever Boston Hadoop User Group (BHUG) meetup. Organized by Dan Milstein and hosted at our office, the event had a good turnout and great talks.
I think we had about 45 people RSVP on meetup.com, and about 40 showed, so that's pretty good. There was a lot of decent socialization, pizza, and beer. In fact, Dan kind of had to get people to shut up so we could have a talk or two ;)
Ryan from ScanScout gave a fun talk about Apache Hive, which generated some discussion, and we also had a few quick "lightning" talks, although I couldn't stay around long enough to hear all of them. I think overall the level of energy was fairly high, and there is a lot of evident interest in these topics.
We've been getting positive feedback today and expressions of interest, so we'll definitely do another Hadoop meetup. Whether we host it or someone else does, the group has promise, and you should join if you care about processing large amounts of data.
Useful links:
- Boston Hadoop User Group on Meetup.com
- Hadoop itself (and Hive)
- Ryan's talk slides