Josh Devins
Josh is a Software Architect working in Nokia's Location services unit in Berlin, Germany. As a group they are responsible for location-based services such as Ovi Maps on the web and device. Josh currently leads an analytics team scouring the company for data to mine, clean, expose and make sense of. Prior to Nokia, he worked primarily as a Java developer and Jira monkey at a number of internet companies ranging from ecommerce startups to online gambling (and no, the games are not rigged). Josh holds a BSc in Computer Science from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada.
You can find Josh on the interwebs too at www.joshdevins.net and @joshdevins.
Track abstract - Room G4 - Cloud computing and Service Oriented Architecture
What is Hadoop? What is MapReduce? What's it all good for?
In this talk we touch on some of the basics of getting started with Hadoop quickly and easily and what the Hadoop ecosystem currently looks like. We will explore some everyday problems that Hadoop can help you with that you can get started with right now, even without a big cluster or tons of data showing that Hadoop scales both up and down. To cap it off, I'll show some examples of how we have been using Hadoop at Nokia for analytics, business reporting and more.
