The UC Berkeley Big Data AMP Camp, August 29-30

Any other HN people going? There's a lot of really cool stuff in the AMP stack. I've trialed Spark a bit, and its promise of unifying batch and streaming computations under the same code base is very powerful. I'm also pretty excited about Mesos, especially as wider adoption smooths out the operational difficulties. And then there's the really far-out stuff like BlinkDB [0].

AMPlab's close interaction with industry seems like a rare model for a truly impactful research lab. It's become host to many of the most exciting developments in large scale computing in the past few years.

[0] http://blinkdb.org/

Anyone going to this should take note: The Bay Bridge (between Oakland and SF) will be closed starting Wed night at 8pm and will remain closed the entire long weekend. This is mentioned in the linked post.

Ordinarily, the trip over the bay from Berkeley to SF is not that big of a deal. But with that bridge closed, any plans to just "pop on over to The City" would not be advised.