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SVLUG: The Story of Gluster

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Administrator

At Silicon Valley Users’ Group (SVLUG) tonite, Anand Babu (AB) Periasamy, CTO Gluster, Inc. gave a great talk on “The Story of Gluster.” The name “Gluster” was derived from the words “GNU” and “Cluster.” No relation to the Luster filesystem, … Continue reading →

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SVLUG: Linux-Based Personal Robotics

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Administrator

Tonight at Silicon Valley Linux Users Group, Tully Foote, Systems Engineer from Willow Garage gave an awesome talk on “Linux-Based Personal Robotics”. DARPA Grand Challenge – Tully participated in the DARPA Grand Challenge on a team that made a self-driving … Continue reading →

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ACCU: Deep C Lecture with Olve Maudal

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Administrator

Tonite at ACCU, Olve Maudal gave a talk titled “Deep C.” I couldn’t make it there tonite, but here’s the slideshare and PDF. It’s an excellent presentation. Olve is a software developer at Cisco Systems. He has a blog and … Continue reading →

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SVLUG: MapR Hadoop

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Administrator

Tonite at the Silicon Valley Users Group, Tomer Shiran, Director of Product Management, MapR Technologies, Inc. gave a talk on their MapR Hadoop product. Tomer did a great job of answering a variety of technical questions. In order to improve … Continue reading →

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BayPIGgies User Group: YouTube for Your Business

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Administrator

Google staff presented two talks at the BayPIGgies Python Users Group tonite: Python At Google (A Google IO talk) YouTube for Your Business Python At Google (A Google IO talk) Python 2.6 is an officially-supported production language, along with C++ … Continue reading →

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