The document summarizes an upcoming meetup about scalability and distributed systems in Seattle. The meetup will include main sessions on Hortonworks and HBase application development by Nick Dimiduk and Saffron's brain-like analytics by Paul Hofmann. There will also be community announcements, an after-beer at a nearby restaurant, and the hashtag #seascale for the event.

1. Seattle Scalability and
Distributed Systems Meetup
March 27, 2013
Hortonworks+HBase
+ Saffron

2. Program
• Main session(s)
• Community announcements
• After-beer
• Hashtag #seascale

3. Hortonworks -- HBase Application
Development
Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) is a pure open source
Apache Hadoop distribution. Get a sneak peek at what's in
store for the developer using HBase as a backing datastore
for web apps.
Nick Dimiduk, (HBase in Action author), Horton Works
@xefyr

4. Saffron - Sense Making And
Prediction Like The Human Brain.
Saffron’s Brain-Like Analytics, solves the problem of capturing
complex, big data streams to create actionable intelligence. We
present the world's fastest triple store -SaffronMemory Base-
for just in time machine learning. Saffron Memory Base
uncovers connections, counts and context in the raw data. It
builds out of the box a semantic graph from hybrid data
sources.
Paul Hofmann, CTO, Saffron
@Paul_Hofmann

5. After-beer @ Rock Bottom
next door c/o eSageGroup

6. Agile Analytics
Bridging the gap between IT and marketing to quickly
deliver marketing insights from complex data
Connected Intelligence. Powerful Insights.

7. Idea for a talk?
In general, we're looking for a deep
technical talk with implementation
details about a big system that's
production-grade :)
http://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Hadoop-HBase-NoSQL-Meetup/