[Chicago] Apache Cassandra and Python tech talk

[eviljoel]

Hello,

How long does the talk on Thursday run?  4:00 PM is kind of hard for
me to get to.  Is there any point to showing up at 5:15 PM.

Thanks,
EJ


On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:50 AM, J. D. Jordan <zanson at zanson.org> wrote:
> This is a preview/practice run of the talk I will be giving at Pycon.
>
> https://us.pycon.org/2012/schedule/presentation/122/
>
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Matt O'Keefe <matt at mattokeefe.com> wrote:
>> Please consider joining us on 3/1 for this meetup. Hope to see you there!
>>
>> http://www.meetup.com/Cassandra-Chicago/events/53378712/
>>
>> Description
>>
>> Using Apache Cassandra from Python is easy to do. This talk will cover
>> setting up and using a local development instance of Cassandra from Python.
>> It will cover using the low level thrift interface, as well as using the
>> higher level pycassa library.
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> Abstract
>>
>> Very brief intro to Apache Cassandra
>> What is Apache Cassandra and where do I get it?
>> Using the Cassandra CLI to setup a keyspace (table) to hold our data
>> Installing the Cassandra thrift API module
>> Using Cassandra from the thrift API
>> Connecting
>> Writing
>> Reading
>> Batch operations
>> Installing the pycassa module
>> Using Cassandra from the pycassa module
>> Connecting
>> Reading
>> Writing
>> Batch operations
>> Indexing in Cassandra
>> Automatic vs Rolling your own
>> Using Composite Columns
>> Setting them up from the CLI
>> How to using them from pycassa
>> Lessons learned
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> Speaker Profile
>>
>> Jeremiah Jordan is a Software Developer at Morningstar, Inc. His team
>> created an Operational Data Store using Python along with Apache Cassandra,
>> MySQL, Google Protocol Buffers, ActiveMQ, ZeroMQ, and Zookeeper (all being
>> used from Python).
>>
>>
>> -Matt
>>
>>
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