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Past Meetings

Storm and Hadoop

Storm and Hadoop May 21, 2013 Brad Anderson will give a talk about Storm and Hadoop. Storm is a distributed realtime computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a

RESTful services with Aerogear

RESTful services with Aerogear April 16 2013 On March 29 the AeroGear project, sponsored by JBoss, released version 1.0 of its server and client libraries.  AeroGear Controller provides a powerful API exposing RESTful services, integrate with existing platforms, expose security

Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka (http://kafka.apache.org) is a “distributed publish-subscribe messaging system” with some very interesting features for handling massive volumes of data without the traditional management and scale issues of JMS implementations. Written in Scala, it runs on the JVM and is

Scala for the Intrigued

Scala for the Intrigued Tuesday, January 15, 2013 Scala is a statically typed, fully OO, hybrid functional language that provides highly expressive syntax on the JVM. It is great for pattern matching, concurrency, and simply writing concise code for everyday

Introduction to WebSockets

Introduction to WebSockets December 18, 2012 The WebSockets technology promises to fill a niche in web applications by enabling browsers and servers to exchange messages with high frequency, low latency and low bandwith requirements in full duplex mode. The WebSocket

Special AJUG Meeting – JBoss EAP6

Special AJUG Meeting – JBoss EAP6 Tuesday, November 27, 2012 Jeremy will show us New Enhancements to EAP6 Additional Speed & Flexibility! JBoss Developer Studio & Mobile App Development Demo JBPM 5 Overview JBoss Workflow Demo Additional Demos on other

The Guts of Git

The Guts of Git Nov 20, 2012 Git is a version control system. We can look at it from that high level. Git is a content tracking system. Some teachers advise us to look at it from that lowered elevation.

Making Tests and DAOs more Groovy

October 23, 2012 Until we get Java 8 and Lambdas, Java programming is stuck with the scourge of anonymous inner classes for providing support to mocking objects and stubbing implementations for unit tests. Additionally we are handcuffed by rigid schemas

Functional Test Automation using FitNesse

Functional Test Automation using FitNesse Tuesday, October 16, 2012 Over the past year, Silverpop has transitioned its functional test automation process and tools from UI Centric tests using QTP, to a mix of UI and service level based tests using

Testing Java EE 6 Applications with Arquillian

Testing Java EE 6 Applications with Arquillian September 18, 2012 This session outlines the tools and techniques for effectively testing Java EE APIs like JSF 2, Servlet 3, CDI, EJB 3.1, JPA 2, JAX-WS and JAX-RS using the highly innovative

AJUG Meetup

Storm and Hadoop

May 21, 2013

Brad Anderson will give a talk about Storm and Hadoop. Storm is a distributed realtime computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing realtime computation.

Storm often coexists in Big Data architectures with Hadoop. We will talk about different approaches to this interoperability between the systems, their benefits & trade-offs, and a new open source library available for high throughput use.

Location:

Holiday Inn Atlanta-Perimeter/Dunwoody
4386 Chamblee Dunwoody Road,
Atlanta, GA (map)

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