Time to Tailor Your Schedule for Geode Summit – This Weds, March 9th

We’ve just put the final touches on the schedule for Geode Summit. It’s going to be an amazing day with over 100 users and developers of Apache Geode (incubating) meeting for the very first time. We’ll be sharing expertise, networking for jobs, hearing about use cases, solution architectures, future feature designs, and conducting hands-on training.

There are two concurrent tracks running most of the day, some of which have limited space, and some of which can be attended virtually if you aren’t able to be in Palo Alto on March 9.  All the sessions, other than the hands-on lab, are being recorded so you can view them later.

If you haven’t registered yet, there’s still a little space.

There are three main types of sessions at Geode Summit:

Keynotes, Solutions, and Use Cases

This is the main track, available for all attendees, and especially suitable for technology mangers and solution architects.  Here you’ll have a chance to hear what people have done with Geode and GemFire in the past, and get some new ideas of what you can build.

Technology training

This is a 2 hour hands-on training class in the morning for developers who are new to using Apache Geode and GemFire and would like a quick introduction. Space is limited, so be sure to register and add this to your schedule if you want to participate.

Note that Participants must bring their own laptop with the following minimum configuration: Windows/Mac/Linux OS with minimum 8GB RAM Multi-core processor is highly recommended Lab environment and files will require roughly 500MB of space Have Virtual Box installed (we will deliver the environment as a VM with components installed and ready to go)

Contributor Feature Discussions

These are 30 minute deep dives into early / nascent features of Apache Geode.  An Apache Geode Committer will head a short discussion about the current capability of a feature, and then ask for ideas and use cases about how this feature could be used.  The purpose is to help inform the future direction of specific Geode capabilities.

These sessions are streamed virtually for the benefit of the Apache Geode community. You can log in here to participate: https://pivotalcommunity.adobeconnect.com/clubhouse/

Specifically these session, and their broadcast times are:

• Spring Data GemFire API current & future (1300 PST)
• Integration & Future Direction for Spring Cloud Data Flow & Geode (1330 PST)
• Redis to Geode Adaptor (1400 PST)
• Off-Heap Storage Current and Future Design (1430 PST)
• Integration with Spark – Geode reading and writing RDDs (1515 PST)
• Easy Ways to Become a Contributor to Apache Geode (1545 PST)

See you either in person, or virtually at Geode Summit!

Celebrating an Amazing 2015 for Pivotal Big Data Communities

In 2015, Pivotal released more than 6 million lines of code into open source, and we launched 4 major new open source projects:

• Apache Geode
• Apache HAWQ
• Apache MADlib
• Greenplum Database

This was a significant accomplishment by Pivotal in terms of engineering, legal, product development, and marketing efforts.

 

Since then we’ve seen quite a bit of interest in these nascent new communities in 2015.

 

2016 is our year to build them to critical mass of members with first official releases, simplifying the path to adoption and contribution, and driving awareness.

 

Here is Happy New Year message from Pivotal to the Pivotal Big Data Community.

What to Expect from Pivotal at ApacheCon Europe 2015

Cross posted from The Pivotal POV Blog…

If anything exemplifies Pivotal’s all-in for open source direction, more than 20 sessions and events for ApacheCon Europe would be one such indicator. We are assembling a dozen open source contributors from 3 continents to help educate and inspire our fellow Apache contributors for projects we commit to such as: Apache Geode (incubating), Apache Ambari, Apache Hadoop, Apache Zeppelin (incubating), Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTP Server,Spring XD, Cloud Foundry and the Open Data Platform Initiative.

Apache Geode Update

Cross posted from The Pivotal POV Blog…

It’s been a few months since Project Geode, the open source core of Pivotal Gemfire, was announced. Since then, the Apache Software Foundation accepted Pivotal’s proposal to incubate Geode as a collaborative development project, and we’ve successfully moved all the project interaction onto the Apache infrastructure. You now have the opportunity to support the powerful Geode technology, which powers commercial high scale banking applications, Internet of Things in-memory analytics, and scale-out digital customer experience infrastructure, such as servicing digital ticket purchases for the largest human migration in the world during Chinese New Year.

Here’s where you can find the Apache Geode project, get hold of the software, and interact with the community:

• Apache Geode (incubating) official site
• Apache Geode nightly builds
• Apache Geode nightly builds in a docker image
• Interact with fellow Geode contributors and developers

Become A Founding Contributor of “Project” Geode

Cross posted from The Pivotal POV Blog…

Today, Pivotal announced the creation of “Geode”, the new in-memory distributed database that will form the open source core of Pivotal GemFire.

It is my pleasure to announce the really fun part of this: the beginning of “Project Geode” – the community of users of and contributors to the Geode technology.

As part of this announcement, we stated that Pivotal has submitted a proposal to The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) to establish and incubate Project Geode through collaborative development.