ANN: Cascalog = Hadoop + Sanity on 2 October in London

[Bruce Durling]

Roll up! Roll up!

Another exciting London Clojurian event coming to you. This time we're
stealing speakers from Strata London!

On 2 October at 18:30 at Skills Matter in London, Stefan Hübner will
be telling us how Cascalog = Hadoop + Sanity

Cascalog is a data processing library for Clojure. It mixes functional
and logic programming and makes data processing code very concise,
easier to grasp and reason about. Being just a Clojure library, all of
Clojures' features are just a keystroke away - no need to learn
another custom language (like Pig or Hive). This also allows for
powerful abstraction and composition capabilities.

Stefan is a Software Developer for Nokia, Berlin. The team Stefan
works for applies data-driven methods to improve Nokia's Maps Search
Engine.

Stefan has a faible for Lisp languages and is also a Co-founder of the
Clojure User Group Berlin.

Sign up here:

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/clojure/cascalog-hadoop-sanity

cheers,
Bruce

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[Ian Rumford]

Just a note to thank Stefan for a great talk.

 I was encouraged to have ago at Cascalog after watching Stefan's EuroClojure talk (video) .  Completely coincidentally, last Saturday, I  blogged on my "first steps" with cascalog.  May help others to get over the initial hump.

http://ianrumford.github.com/blog/2012/09/29/using-cascalog-for-extract-transform-and-load/

BTW, Stefan mentioned Pig and I've also posted recently about writing PIG user defined functions (UDFs) in Clojure.  (And one on JRuby as well).  To get a feel for ease, strengths and weaknesses, etc.  Clojure one here:

http://ianrumford.github.com/blog/2012/09/21/writing-apache-pig-udfs-in-clojure/

I doubt if Stefan will actually see this reply, but if you do Stefan,  try this great double set from Jaytech and Johan Vilborg:

http://soundcloud.com/jaytechmusic/jaytech-music-podcast-054

[Bruce Durling]

The podcast is up already:
http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/cascalog-hadoop-sanity

Thanks again to Stefan for a great talk. I hope you had a good time
with the London Clojurians.

cheers,
Bruce

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[Stefan Hübner]

Just saw this :) Yep, I had a great time indeed!

And thank you, Ian for your posts. I'll check them out!

Cheers,
Stefan