November 2015



20-11-15 Trainings/21-11-15 Conference

Barcelona, Spain



Casa Convalescència

Speakers

Big thanks to all wonderful speakers that presented at distributed matters @Barcleona 2015.

If you missed any of their inspiring talks, you can find the slides of the presentations here.

keynote: Kelsey Hightower

(Google, Inc)

Bart Samwel

(Google, Inc.)

Scott Feinberg

(The New York Times)

Dustin Whittle

(AppDynamics)

Tugdual Grall

(MapR)

Chris Armstrong

(Deis)

Dominik Rüttimann

(Protogrid)

Feike Steenbergen

(Zalando)

Héctor Férnandez

(Giant Swarm)

Lucian Precup

(Adelean)

Michael Hackstein

(ArangoDB)

Pablo Chacin

(Sensefields)

Pierre Bittner

(Scaled Risk)

Rob Haswell

(ClusterHQ)

Rotem Hermon

(Gigya)

Seán C McCord

(CyCore Systems, Inc)

Susan Potter

(Lookout)

Uwe Friedrichsen

(codecentric AG)

Are you a NoSQL or Big Data developer? Or simply in-love with related cool stuff?

distributed matters conference - is the place for you to be! The event covers a large amount of topics, including Distributed systems, Microservices, Cloud management, Database solutions, NoSQL, Big Data and DevOps. The talks are spiced up with different difficulty levels and various scenarios.

Training Day

distributed matters training day will take place on 20th November 2015. Each slot will last 4h. You can choose a training session in the morning and one in the afternoon.

Conference

For our 4th event in Barcelona we are introducing a new twist to our beloved NoSQL & BigData crowd. We are now adding topics like Distributed systems, Microservices, Datacenter operating systems (DCOS), Cloud management & DevOp operations to our agenda. Our previous events: Cologne, Dublin, Barcelona, Paris & Berlin.

15+ speakers

Meet 15+ national and international speakers from all around the world. We will have 2 parallel tracks filled with use cases, technical & algorithmic detail talks and product demonstrations.

distributed matters @Barcelona, Spain

Why should you attend distributed matters?

And what will be waiting for you there

Gain new skills: Dive into technical aspects and walk away with an ability to operate the latest applications.
Strengthen your network: Get in touch with both leading industry experts and skilled beginners.
Explore the current field: Meet and connect with various companies to find out more about their innovative solutions.
Have a great time: Get to know the like-minded fun guys from the industry. Network during lunch or have a beer on the after-party!

The Conference

And what will be waiting for you there

On 21st November 2015 Casa Convalescència will open the doors to our adventure-hungry participants. Come around to enjoy a great day of mind blowing talks! During the conference you will have endless opportunities to network, expand your knowledge, or simply meet the cool crowd.

Our international speakers offer a large variety of thoroughly selected topics with different difficulty levels. All talks will be in English.

The Content

And what will be waiting for you there

distributed matters will cover a broad spectrum of topics, including new products, use-cases and field reports of day-to-day operations.
You will experience use-case scenarios on different subjects, such as: document and column stores, graph databases, cloud computing & cloud management, distributed systems, microservices, Datacenter operating systems (DCOS), NoSQL, Big Data and DevOps.
We will zoom in on technical background and algorithmic innovations, from consistency models to geo-indices, and from CAP & BASE to Big Data. All of our talks and trainings are spiced up with humour and accompanied by tasty catering.

The Venue

And what will be waiting for you there

distributed matters Barcelona 2015 will take place in the beautiful Casa Convalescència. The venue is one of the last great works of Catalan Modernism, a part of the complex of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau. Built in the late 19th century, Casa Convalescència has stunning glazed solariums and a chapel that connects two wings of the building. The whole hospital complex including the Casa was declared as Historical Artistic Monument in 1978 and World Cultural Heritage Site by the UNESCO in 1997.

Agenda


Time Room 1 Room 2
8:30am-8:55am Registration
9:00am-1:00pm

An Introduction to Container Applications and Deis PaaS


Trainer: Rimantas Mocevicius
Level: Beginner


A gentle, yet practical introduction to Hadoop

Trainer: Arnaud Cogoluègnes
Level: Beginner

1:00pm-1:45pm Lunch
1:45pm-5:45pm

Introduction to microservice architecture


Trainer: Michael Hackstein
Level: Beginner


Introduction to Flocker, a storage orchestration system for containers


Trainer: Rob Haswell
Level: Beginner


Day: 1

Time Track 1
(Aula Magna) 		Track 2
(Room 13)
8:30 – 9:30 Registration
9:30 – 10:15 Redefining the cloud one container at a time.
keynote: Kelsey Hightower

Level:
10:30 – 11:15

NoSQL meets Microservices
Michael Hackstein

Level: Beginner

Performance Testing Crash Course
Dustin Whittle

Level: Intermediate

11:15 – 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 – 12:15

Cloud Apps – Running Fully Distributed on Mobile Devices
Dominik Rüttimann

Level: Intermediate

Innovating Journalism at Scale
Scott Feinberg

Level: Intermediate

12:30 – 13:15

Actors, Evolved
Rotem Hermon

Level: Intermediate

F1 – The Distributed SQL Database Supporting Google's Ad Business
Bart Samwel

Level: Beginner

13:15 – 14:15 Lunch
14:15 – 14:45

Deis: A distributed, highly-available PaaS built on CoreOS and Docker
Chris Armstrong

Level: Intermediate

Data persistence in containerspace
Seán C McCord

Level: Intermediate

15:00 – 15:30

Running database containers using Marathon and Flocker
Rob Haswell

Level: Intermediate

A Tale of two microservices
Pablo Chacin

Level: Intermediate

15:45 – 16:30

Functional Operations
Susan Potter

Level: Intermediate

Joins in a distributed world
Lucian Precup

Level: Intermediate

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 – 17:45

Microservices – stress-free and without increased heart-attack risk
Uwe Friedrichsen

Level: Intermediate

Meet Spilo, Zalando’s HIGH-AVAILABLE POSTGRESQL CLUSTER
Feike Steenbergen

Level: Intermediate

18:00 – 18:45

NoSQL in Financial Industry
Pierre Bittner

Level: Intermediate

What and Why and How: Apache Drill !
Tugdual Grall

Level: Intermediate

18:45 – 20:00 Get Together

Technical Aspects

Products

Use Case

...for developers, architects and geeks.

Interested to see how much fun and geekery we had in Barcelona?

Take a look at the pictures of distributed matters Barcelona 2015!


Check out what happened at the previous conferences around Europe!

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What do others say about NoSQL matters?

Had a great time at #nosql14. Thanks to all speakers, sponsors, organizers and fellow attendees. See you again next year!

Javier A. Rodriguez

It was great to meet some great people and to share ideas @ the @nosqlmatters Barcelona 2014 yesterday. Great place and organization.

Omar Qunsul

I kind of missed to mention how great @nosqlmatters in Barcelona was! Great organization, awesome folks – hope to see you all soon in Paris!

Sebastian Cohnen

Finally arrived @nosqlmatters dublin. Looking forward to a day of severe tech nerdity. Seriously.

Jon Gleich

Great learning's today at @nosqlmatters dublin. Thanks guys for organising, highly recommend it & I will be back

Aidan Casey

Thanks @nosqlmatters another great conference!

Simon Elliston Ball
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@nosqlmatters Good day today at #nosqlmatters #dublin Thanks to all the speakers.

Brian Doran

+1 "@nosqlmatters: Massive <3 to speakers, sponsors participants! We enjoyed every second in Dublin. See you soon! #nosql14”

Jacqui Taylor

Big thanks to our sponsors and partners

We wouldn't have done it without you, guys!

Venue

Welcome to our 4th annual conference in Barcelona full of fun and severe tech nerdity.

An informative training day will be held on 20th November 2015. Followed by an interactive conference day on 21st November 2015.

Join us at the beautiful Casa Convalescència (Address: C/ Sant Antoni Maria Claret 171, Barcelona 08041, Spain).

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