It’s been a while since we did a technical topic at STS, but there’s been increasing awareness and interest in the NoSQL movement (e.g. Twitter moves from MySQL to Cassandra), and we thought this could be a great opportunity to learn:
Michael Miller from Cloudant (YC S08) will be on hand to discuss CouchDB and their commercial offering, Eric Peters from Frugal Mechanic (Founders Co-op) will talk about Cassandra, and Ted Neward, principal at Neward and Associates and an author of several technical books, will delve into MongoDB.
Bonus:
Mike is an Assistant Professor of Physic at UW and cofounder of Cloudant (YCombinator, summer 2008). Cloudant is an integrated data management, search, and analytics engine that fundamentally changes the way businesses, from startups to large enterprises, manage and analyze data. Cloudant sprouted from the founders experience and frustrations with building globally distributed systems to manage the world’s largest data sets for science. The company was spun out of MIT, received seed funding from YCombinator, closed Series A venture funding 6 months after inception and is now actively growing first revenues.
Coming soon. In the meantime, check out Frugal Mechanic.
Ted Neward is the Principal with Neward & Associates, where he specializes in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 20-person shops. He speaks on the conference circuit, including the No Fluff Just Stuff Symposium tour, discussing Java, .NET and XML service technologies, focusing on Java-.NET interoperability, programming languages, and virtual machine technologies. He has written several widely-recognized books in both the Java and .NET space, including the recently-released “Effective Enterprise Java”, and the forthcoming “Professional F#”. He lives in the Pacific Northwest.