The Fifth Elephant 2013
2013-07-11..2013-07-13
Bangalore, India
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| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Billion value at risk computations in 187 milliseconds | Abinasha Karana | 26m |
Claim: 15 billion VaR computations in 187 ms. Implementation uses HBase coprocessors and direct disk reads with binary-packed position records (≈16–18 bytes)… | ||
| Visualising networks | Anand S | 43m |
This talk shows ways of visualising network data at a large and a small scale.
Network structures are everywhere: in social media, telecom, airports, banking… | ||
| SolrCloud and NoSQL | Anshum Gupta | 36m |
Argues that SolrCloud is CP (favours consistency and partition tolerance) and uses ZooKeeper for cluster state, describes optimistic concurrency via… | ||
| Cloud based low cost low maintenance scalable data platform | Apoorva Gaurav | 42m |
A cloud data platform is built for Myntra using an HTTP-finagle front end, Kafka ingestion, S3 storage and EMR batch processing, with a Storm-based real-time… | ||
| Similar entity detection in large data | Arthi Venkataraman | 41m |
Applies a multilayer perceptron on per‑pair feature distances (first/last name, address, DOB, gender), using custom distance functions and Levenshtein‑style… | ||
| Big Data and SSDs | Brian Bulkowski | 45m |
Claims an open source ACT benchmark for mixed read/write real‑time loads and publishes GitHub code; measures drives over hours to spot pauses that appear after… | ||
| Analyzing Terabytes of Data with Google BigQuery | Chandramouli Mahadevan | 41m |
Product externalizes Dremel and ColumnIO to run interactive analytics over billions of rows, storing data in column-oriented storage so queries read only… | ||
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