This is a meetup for Bay Area users of Spark (www.spark-project.org), the high-speed Scala-based cluster programming framework. We'll be rotating among locations in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Berkeley. We'll also discuss other Spark-related projects, including the Hive-on-Spark port (Shark), and other new programming tools for big data. The meetup will include introductions to the various Spark features, case studies from current users, best practices for deployment and tuning, and futur …

… During the summer, let's plan on meeting at apiaries around town, and looking into other people's hives. During the autumn, we can learn about honey extraction and bottling. We'll also be talking about starting your own hive in the spring, and how to plant for pollinators. So come, learn! enjoy!

… Data Warehouses Business Intelligence ETL Data Mining MySQL Server Oracle Database Data Analytics Data Management Database Development Related Open Source tools, Hadoop, PIG, HIVE, Pentaho, etc