Surge — A Scalability & Performance Conference, presented by OmniTI.

Surge 2010 Keynote & Speaker List

Discussing Scalability Matters…

…because scalability matters. Surge is more than an event, it's a chance to identify emerging trends and meet the architects behind established technologies. Learn from their mistakes and see how their victories can power your business forward.

Rod Cope Speaker

Rod Cope CTO and Founder, OpenLogic

Rod Cope is the CTO and Founder of OpenLogic, a provider of Open Source support and governance solutions for the enterprise. He has over 25 years of software development experience in a wide range of industries and technologies.

Prior to founding OpenLogic, Rod worked for General Electric, IBM, IBM Global Services, and Anthem before starting his own consulting company. As a consultant, he has architected solutions for Ericsson, Ford, Manugistics, Integral, Goodyear, and many other companies of all sizes.

Rod has spoken on various technical and business topics at JavaOne, OSCON, the No Fluff Just Stuff Java Symposium, the Open Source Business Conference, the Next Generation Data Center conference, and other venues around the United States and Europe. He holds both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Software Engineering from the University of Louisville.

Rod's Talks

Top 10 Lessons Learned from Deploying Hadoop in a Private Cloud

Day 2 - 11:00 am

Location: Marble

  • Cloud,
  • NoSQL
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Hadoop, HBase, and friends are built from the ground up to support Big Data/NoSQL, but that doesn't make them easy. Just like with any other relatively new and complex technologies, there are some rough edges and growing pains to manage. I've learned some hard lessons while deploying HBase tables containing billions of rows and dozens of terabytes on OpenLogic's Hadoop infrastructure. Come to this session to learn about some of the "gotchas" you might run into when deploying Hadoop and HBase in your own private cloud and how to avoid them.

Here are some general areas we'll explore:

  • Hard-to-find configuration problems and debugging techniques
  • Under-documented yet critical features
  • Deployment recommendations for particular use cases
  • Advice on how to import Big Data
  • Using JRuby/Ruby to make life with Hadoop and HBase easier

Program

Sessions

Speakers will be added as we approach the event dates. Visit back for updates to this page and the Sessions Calendar.