panoramaLast night was the 8th eSage Group co-sponsored Seattle Scalability MeetUp hosted at WhitePages.com. There were about 130 people in attendance to hear about HBase and Saffron. Very cool stuff!! Here is the SlideShare.

Summary:

Nick Dimiduk from Hortonworks, the father of HBase, gave us a sneak peek at what’s in store for the developer using HBase as a backing datastore for web apps. He reviewed the standard HBase client API before going into a framework architecture that makes HBase development more like other frameworks designed for developer productivity. He then went over fundamentals like rowkey design and column family considerations and also dug into how to tap coprocessors to add functionality to apps that otherwise might normally be overlooked.

Nick’s Bio: Nick Dimiduk is an engineer and hacker with a respect for customer-driven products. He started using HBase before it was a thing, and co-wrote HBase in Action to share that experience. He studied Computer Science & Engineering at The Ohio State University, specifically programming languages, and artificial intelligence.

Paul Hofmann from Saffron gave a talk titled “Sense Making And Prediction Like The Human Brain.” It was an amazing presentation on machine learning and predictive analytics. Cool stuff!!

Abstract of Paul’s talk: There is growing interest in automating cognitive thinking, but can machines think like humans? Associative memories learn by example like humans. 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. Saffronstores the graph and its statistics in matrices that can be queried in real time even for Big Data. Connecting the DotsWe demonstrate the power of entity rank for real time search by the example of the London Bomber and Twitter sentiment analysis. Illuminating the Dots We show the power of Saffron’s model free approach for pattern recognition and prediction on a couple of real world examples like Boeing’s use case of predictive maintenance for aircraft and risk prediction at The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Pauls Bio: Dr. Paul Hofmann is an expert in AI, computer simulations and graphics. He is CTO of Saffron Technology, a Big Data predictive analytics firm named top 5 coolest vendors in Enterprise Information Management by Gartner. Before joining Saffron, Paul was VP of Research at SAP Labs in Silicon Valley. He has authored two books and numerous publications. Paul received his Ph.D. in Physics at the Darmstadt University of Technology.

Make sure to put April 24th for the next Scalability MeetUp at RedFin.