Presentation: Tweet"Panel Debate: What the hell is Big Data"
Panel Debate.
Tech Mesh London 2012
Darach Ennis, TweetVP of Engineering at Push Technology
Biography: Darach Ennis
Darach joined Push Technology in October 2011 and in his role brings a deep knowledge and experience of low latency and high volume scalable distributed event processing to Push Technology and to our clients. Darach is excited by technology, and the possibilities inherent in it, and his curiosity and creativity plays a big part in his role as VP of Engineering and Head of Innovation and R&D, developing and enabling the systems that make Push Technology the remarkable company that it is.
Darach has a wealth of experience and expertise from his background working as Principal Consultant, Systems Engineer & Global Solutions Architect with companies such as Betfair, IONA, JP Morgan Chase and StreamBase. Regularly speaking at conferences and events on Big Data and CEP, Darach is a regular contributor to Big Data and CEP groups on LinkedIn. He has designed and implemented algorithmic trading platforms, flow trading systems, smart order routing systems, online spread betting, sports and gaming systems, as well as championing hardware accelerated messaging and compute acceleration in CEP.
Darach is currently interested in enabling the internet of things in the context of real time conversational and high touch experiences, and migrating the telemetry normally associated with sensor networks to targeted experiences on the web and mobile. Darach introduced benchmark driven development as a core discipline and practice at Push Technology to drive product evolution based on real world use cases and working sets critical to our clients and his core interest is taking the pain away from real time data distribution in mission critical real time systems.
Dean Wampler, TweetBig Dataist, O'Reilly Author
Biography: Dean Wampler
Dean Wampler is a Principal Consultant at Think Big Analytics, where he specializes in "Big Data" problems and tools like Hadoop and Machine Learning. Besides Big Data, he specializes in Scala, the JVM ecosystem, JavaScript, Ruby, functional and object-oriented programming, and Agile methods. Dean is a frequent speaker at industry and academic conferences on these topics. He has a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Washington.
Kresten Krab Thorup, TweetHacker, CTO of Trifork
Biography: Kresten Krab Thorup
Dr. Kresten Krab Thorup is Chief Architext and Co-founder of EOS Trifork, a vendor of J2EE compatible application servers. Thorup received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Aarhus; he has served on the expert group for JSR-14 (Adding Generics to Java), and is currently serving on JSR 244 (Java EE 5.0). Before joining Trifork and the EOS-group, Thorup spend three years at NeXT in San Francisco.Pavlo Baron, TweetFighter of huge amounts of chaotic data, mostly using computer science
Biography: Pavlo Baron
Pavlo Baron is the lead architect with codecentric AG. Starting his IT life 20 years ago by implementing a bunch of printer drivers for MS-DOS in C and x86 Assembly, he has gained knowledge of and put in to practice a wide variety of technologies. His first Erlang experience dates back to 2005, as he evaluated a reliable technology for parallel/distributed execution of a proprietary sequential calculation engine written in C++. Pavlo's passion is hacking code and playing with distributed systems and large data sets. In many cases, he would choose Erlang/OTP over some other well known, so called enterprise adopted technologies. Pavlo is frequent conference speaker and has written three German books: "Erlang/OTP", "Pragmatic IT Architecture" and "Fragile Agile".