Monday February 20 Triangle Java Users Group meeting

 Triangle Java Users Group presents:

   Cassandra: Radical NoSQL Scalability

 Presented by:

   Tim Berglund

 Monday February 20, 2012
 6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
 Red Hat/Raleigh
 1801 Varsity Drive, Raleigh, NC
 TriJUG (http://trijug.org) meetings are hosted by JBoss

 Presentation summary:

   Want to go deep on a popular NoSQL database? Cassandra is a scalable,
   highly available, column-oriented data store in use at Netflix, Twitter,
   Reddit, Rackspace, and other web-scale operations. It offers a compelling
   combination of a rich data model, a robust deployment track record, and
   a sound architecture, making it a good choice of NoSQL databases to
   study first.

   We'll talk about Cassandra's data model, look at its query idioms, talk
   about how to deploy it, and look at use cases in which it is an
appropriate
   data storage solution. We'll study its origins in the Amazon Dynamo
project
   and Google's BigTable, and learn how its architecture helps us achieve
the
   gold standard of scalability: horizontal scalability on commodity
hardware.
   You'll leave prepared to begin experimenting with Cassandra immediately
   and planning its adoption in your next project.

 About the Speaker:

   Tim is a full-stack generalist and passionate teacher who loves coding,
   presenting, and working with people. He believes the best developer
   is one who is well-informed of specifics and can also make deep
   connections between software development and the broader world.
   He has recently been exploring non-relational data stores, continuous
   deployment, and how software architecture should resemble an ant colony.

   His firm, the August Technology Group, helps clients with product
   development, technology consulting, and technology upgrade projects
   atop the JVM. The August Group's technology preferences reflect the
   generalist sensibilities of its founder, and its development practices
   are always lightweight, self-improving, and humanizing by design.

   Tim is a speaker internationally and on the No Fluff Just Stuff tour in
   the United States, and is co-president of the Denver Open Source User
   Group in the Denver area, co-author of the DZone Clojure RefCard,
   co-presenter of the best-selling O'Reilly Git Master Class, co-author
   of Building and Testing with Gradle, and a member of the O'Reilly
   Expert Network.

   He lives in Littleton, CO with the wife of his youth and their three
   children.

 Agenda:

  6:30 - 7:00 -- Meet, Talk, Pizza&  soft drinks
  7:00 - 7:15 -- JUG Business and Announcements, including "share a job"
                      (Recruiters welcome)
  7:15 - 8:15 -- Presentation
  8:15 - 8:30 -- Discussion with Presenter
  8:30        -- Book Raffle
  9:00        -- Doors close


 Admission:

  Paid-up members of TriJUG may attend without additional charge.
  Non-members are asked to pay $5 per meeting. However, if you are
  either a full time student or unemployed, then we ask only $2 per
  meeting. Membership for 12 months is $40 and $15 respectively.

 DIRECTIONS to meeting place at Red Hat/Raleigh

  Google Maps:http://tinyurl.com/trijug-meeting-place

  From the Raleigh Beltline:

    Take the Western Blvd exit east toward downtown Raleigh. After
crossing Gorman Street turn right onto Varsity Drive. After crossing
Avent Ferry Road and Main Campus Drive, Red Hat's main entrance is on
the left. Parking is just beyond the entrance: a left into the parking
deck. Come back out of the deck, follow the sidewalk to the right and
back to the main entrance. The meeting room is to the left after
entering the main lobby.

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