Overview

Amazon Web Services (AWS) evangelist Jinesh Varia presents Amazon’s Elastic MapReduce, a web service that simplifies the complexity of large-scale data processing operations for a growing ecosystem of AWS users. The product utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and addresses use cases that involve data mining, bio-informatics, financial simulation, file processing, and web indexing.

Overview

Photobucket is a premier site on the Internet for uploading, sharing, linking and finding photos, videos and graphics. Photobucket’s Alice Lankester provides an overview of their service, and their new app for Yahoo! Mail.

John Resig Part 2 from Chris Williams on Vimeo.

Overview

John Resig presents his mystery topic, which is actually three topics that strike his interest. First up is measuring performance and a quick introduction to benchmarking (and its positives and negatives). This is followed by JavaScript Games which he unveils some super cool hidden functionality (cheat codes++) on the jQuery web site. This is followed up by the introduction of John’s distributed continuous test framework platform, Test Swarm. It is jam packed with Nirvana and goodness so be sure to watch both parts.

John Resig Part 1 from Chris Williams on Vimeo.

Overview

John Resig presents his mystery topic, which is actually three topics that strike his interest. First up is measuring performance and a quick introduction to benchmarking (and its positives and negatives). This is followed by JavaScript Games which he unveils some super cool hidden functionality (cheat codes++) on the jQuery web site. This is followed up by the introduction of John’s distributed continuous test framework platform, Test Swarm. It is jam packed with Nirvana and goodness so be sure to watch both parts.