October 12th — Cassandra – Radical Scalability
Location: Lowry
Building 758
Rm. 138-140
1059 Alton Way
Denver, CO 80230
5:30-6:00: Food, Soda and Networking
We are grateful to Tek-Systems for their continued sponsorship of the
Food and Soda!
6:00-7:00:
BASIC CONCEPTS: NoSQL Smackdown by Tim Berglund
http://nofluffjuststuff.com/topics/nosql_smackdown_
You’ve read that the relational model is old and busted, and there are newer, faster, web-scale ways to store your application’s data. You’ve heard that NoSQL databases are the future! Well, what is all this NoSQL stuff about? Is it time to ditch Oracle, MySQL, and SQL Server in favor of the new guard? To be able to make that call, there’s a lot you’ll have to learn.
In this session, we’ll take a whirlwind tour of several representative non-relational data stores, including Cassandra, MongoDB, and Neo4J. We’ll learn the very different ways they represent data, and we’ll see their unique strengths and weaknesses in various kinds of applications. Along the way, we’ll learn why new technologies must be introduced to address today’s scaling challenges, and what compromises we’ll have to make if we want to abandon the databases of our youth. We’ll review what ACID means, think about query idioms, and talk about the CAP theorem. It’s an exciting time to be storing and retrieving data, and the opportunity is now before us to learn things we could ignore just a few years ago. Come to this session for a solid introduction to a growing field.
Bio: Tim Berglund
Tim is a full-stack generalist and passionate teacher who loves coding, presenting, and working with people. His firm, the [August Technology Group](http://augusttechgroup.com), helps clients with product development, technology consulting, and technology upgrade projects atop the JVM. He is a speaker internationally and on the [No Fluff Just Stuff](http://nofluffjuststuff.com) tour in the United States, and is co-president of the [Denver Open Source User Group](http://denveropensource.org), co-presenter of the best-selling [O’Reilly Git Master Class](http://bit.ly/ogitvid), co-author of [Building and Testing with Gradle](http://www.amazon.com/dp/144930463X) and a member of the [O’Reilly Expert Network](http://oreilly.com/pub/expert/timberglund). He lives in Littleton with the wife of his youth and their three children.
7:30-8:45:
MAIN PRESENTATION: Cassandra: Radical NoSQL Scalability
http://nofluffjuststuff.com/topics/cassandra__radical_nosql_scalability
Want to go deep on a popular NoSQL database? Cassandra is a scalable, highly available, column-oriented data store in use at Facebook, 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.
In this session, 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.
Bio: Tim Berglund
Tim is a full-stack generalist and passionate teacher who loves coding, presenting, and working with people. His firm, the [August Technology Group](http://augusttechgroup.com), helps clients with product development, technology consulting, and technology upgrade projects atop the JVM. He is a speaker internationally and on the [No Fluff Just Stuff](http://nofluffjuststuff.com) tour in the United States, and is co-president of the [Denver Open Source User Group](http://denveropensource.org), co-presenter of the best-selling [O’Reilly Git Master Class](http://bit.ly/ogitvid), co-author of [Building and Testing with Gradle](http://www.amazon.com/dp/144930463X) and a member of the [O’Reilly Expert Network](http://oreilly.com/pub/expert/timberglund). He lives in Littleton with the wife of his youth and their three children.
*** AGENDA ***
5:30 – 6:00 p.m. Food, and Networking.
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. Basic Concepts/First Session
7:15 – 7:30 pm Announcements – companies hiring, job seekers
7:30 – 8:45 p.m. Main/Featured Presentation
8:45 p.m. Door prizes
*** DIRECTIONS ***
Here’s some additional directional help:
Campus Map:
http://www.cccs.edu/Docs/About/LowryDirectory.pdf
Driving Directions:
http://www.cccs.edu/Docs/About/DrivingDirectionsToLowry.pdf
Look for the building with the UNC signage on it as Bldg 758 might be difficult to see.