Here we come: Hadoop Summit Dublin

Hadoop Summit April 13-14 Dublin.

Criteo Labs is proud to be the official wireless network sponsor at this year’s Hadoop Summit. The event will take place from Wednesday April 13 – 14 at the convention centre  of Dublin, Ireland

Venue: Convention Center Dublin

Hadoop Summit, the premier Apache Hadoop community event features sessions and tracks focused on showcasing successful Apache Hadoop use cases, sharing development tips and tricks, and providing a networking environment for the Apache Hadoop community, all designed to spur innovation and expand the ecosystem.

Oh, we’ll also be giving talks at the conference on April 14, from 17h00 – 17h40

Working with the Type Safe Scalding API

Abstract: Scalding is a go-to choice for developing MapReduce jobs and the new(ish) Type Safe API promises to make jobs ever more safer, without adding any additional testing overhead (and, of course, you all test your jobs). In the process of rolling out the Type Safe API of Scalding at Criteo we encountered a number of pitfalls made more difficult to overcome by the lack of documentation and examples of the Type Safe API. During this talk we’ll present a down and dirty look at what it takes to get a team up, running and productive on this sometimes mysterious API.

Speaker(s):

Justin Coffey, Snr Staff Dev Lead R&D.

Bio: Justin Coffey, Criteo
Justin Coffey is a senior staff devlead at Criteo in charge of the Analytics Infrastructure team. He oversees (and even manages the occasional contribution to) the development of better tools to manage the petabytes of analytic data employed by hundreds of Criteo analysts and engineers across the world. With over 15 years of experience working in the Internet, Justin has worked with web technologies since their inception. Prior to working for Criteo, Justin worked in a number of Internet startups as an on-hands engineering manager helping drive explosive growth at the early stages.

Snr Software Engineer, R&D

Bio: Sofian Djamaa, Criteo
Sofian is a passionate programmer fond of solving head-scratching problems in challenging environments such as big data architectures, low latency systems and complex algorithmic situations (machine learning, optimizations). At Criteo, Sofian is the chief sponsor of Scalding, Summingbird and other data processing frameworks.

There will be about 13 of our engineers in Dublin for this conference so please find them, chat with them and if you consider careers with us, they will be your main guide.