Cassandra Hackathon

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When

June 8th and 9th 2011

Where

In the offices of Soundcloud (thanks for supporting us) on map

What

The Cassandra Workshop is the first European event of its kind for Apache Cassandra, the popular distributed scale-out database selected by the likes of Twitter, Netflix, Digg, Soundcloud and many others.
It will give you the opportunity learn about Cassandra, meet with people using Apache Cassandra as well exchange with those involved with the project, including committers.
If you are starting to build your first Cassandra project, want specific support with on-going projects, or are pushing the limits of your Cassandra deployment, this is the place to be.

Registration

We have a limited number of places! So make sure to register now at https://cassandraberlin.eventbrite.com/.

Agenda

Day 1

Morning
- Cassandra training. This training will take you from 0 to 60 building scalable applications on Apache Cassandra. It will cover the cassandra 0.7 release, with indications where cassandra 0.8 differs.
- Agenda:
  - Installation and configuration
  - Application design
  - Operations
  - Tuning and troubleshooting
Afternoon
- Cassandra training continued
- Advanced sessions
  - Bringing high and predictable performance to Cassandra with Acunu Storage Platform
    - Cassandra under the hood (Memtables, SStables, Bloom filters, Merkel trees). slides.
    - Getting started with Acunu Storage Platform including performance comparisons. slides.
  - Cassandra on EC2. slides.
  - Apache Hadoop powered by Cassandra with Datastax brisk (short talk + live demo). slides.

Day 2

Morning: Cassandra real world stories
- Jake Maizel, Alexander Simmerl (SoundCloud): Operations of Cassandra as a persisted, incrementally updated index, servicing SoundCloud Dashboards. slides
- Mikio Braun (TWimpact): Time oriented storage. slides
- Daniel Doubleday(sMeet): Not only bad news - Lessons learned in 1 year with Cassandra in a latency critical environment. slides
- Eric Evans (Rackspace): an interactive session aimed at prospective users, contributors, and would-be driver maintainers, covering the API for those using languages that don't yet have a driver, or for those interested in writing one. slides
Afternoon: open hack and discussions
- Free time to work on specific problem or discuss your project with other Cassandra experts

If you have any suggestions about the agenda or would like to speak at the workshop, please contact manu@acunu.com.

What to bring

Your Berlin Buzzwords badge to be admitted to the Hackathon.
Enthusiasm, creativity and expertise
Your laptop (or other hardware you need) preloaded with your favourite programming tools.

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