[so2] Tech Talk Bloomberg: "Hadoop at Bloomberg" + alte discutii, luni, 27 octombrie 2014, ora 14:00, sala EG301

[Razvan Deaconescu]

Salutare.

Luni, 27 octombrie 2014, de la ora 14:00, în sala EG301 îi avem invitați
pe cei de la Bloomberg R&D[1] cu o prezentare tehnică "Hadoop at
Bloomberg". Bloomberg este o firmă de software financiar, cu produse,
tehnologie și infrastructură de ultimă generație, iar Bloomberg R&D este
departamentul ce cuprinde inginerii software care construiesc aceste
produse.

Pe lângă prezentare și pizza :-), vom avea și discuții despre
internship-uri pentru studenți, oportunități de colaborare, research &
development și open source la Bloomberg.

Mai jos sunt câteva informații despre prezentarea de luni și despre
Bloomberg R&D.

Vă așteptăm! Pentru alte informatii urmăriți și pagina de pe Facebook a
evenimentului[2]. Ne vedem acolo!

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/rd/
[2] https://www.facebook.com/events/305355446315271/

Răzvan

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Presenter name: Matthew Hunt

Title: Hadoop at Bloomberg

Bloomberg, the premier data and analytics provider to the financial
world, is working on consolidating a number of its core data systems
around distributed commodity platforms. HBase is a natural fit in many
ways for time series data, but the absolute performance and tight
availability tolerances are more restrictive then the general web
case. Our "medium data" problem of dozens of terabytes of data with high
reliability and consistently low latency is an interesting one to
consider as the capabilities and maturity of the Hadoop ecosystem
continue to expand. In this talk, we'll detail our experiences in
driving towards performance goals on high core modern machines, and
which techniques have born fruit, from multiple region servers per
machine to synchronized garbage collection to secondary region servers,
and offer a glimpse of future development.

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Bloomberg’s R&D department is a global team of more than 3,000 software
engineers and infrastructure architects responsible for creating the
world’s premiere source for real-time and historical financial market
data and analytics. We provide communications platforms, data,
analytics, trading platforms, news and information to the world’s
leading financial market participants. Our unrivaled software,
platforms, and mobile applications are delivered on top of our
state-of-the-art software and hardware developed by Bloomberg
technologists for Bloomberg customers.

In a nutshell:
- We provide a 24/7 service, real-time data and instant communication
- The code needs to be scalable, reliable, high-performance
- We use a variety of technologies (C++, JAVA, proprietary database and
  communications)
- The Bloomberg culture is a dynamic, flat hierarchy where you are
  responsible for what you write 

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