Last week I had the pleasure of attending NoSQL East 2009, a new conference based around the non-relational data stores that I briefly covered in this post. In short, it was a rather intimate and highly technical conference on the grand scheme of things. There were roughly 120 people in attendance for the two-day event that gathered 16 speakers who discussed, more or less, which NoSQL technology they employed at their company and how they used it. [click to continue…]
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There’s a new tech conference coming to Atlanta at the end of the month. Unlike other events I have covered and attended, this one is for those who not only develop websites but also deal with large data sets at high load and have learned the struggles of dealing with relational databases like MySQL at such scale. The underlying concept (movement rather) is called NoSQL — a (much debated) term describing the next generation of data storage technologies. [click to continue…]
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Alright, so you’re pretty down with the tech scene. You’ve gone to more BarCamps than you care to list, have a few WordCamps under your belt, maybe a Startup Weekend or two, and perhaps a SuperHappyDevHouse here and there. Maybe you’ve been to the invite-only Foo Camp if you’re all kinds of special. But have you been to an O’Reilly Ignite event yet? Until this past Thursday, I hadn’t. That’s when Atlanta held its first Ignite and I can say without a doubt that it went off without a hitch. I don’t know what the official count was, but the event had close to 500 RSVPs. [click to continue…]
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