Hopper Elasticsearch Hackathon
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What is it?
The Hopper Elasticsearch Hackathon is an all-day power hack during which hackers get access to a huge cluster (30 8-core instances with 32GB RAM and 250GB disk per node) and are set free to create something awesome using Elasticsearch.
In the first hour, we’ll provide an overview of Elasticsearch and an in-depth tutorial to get new and experienced users up to speed with the search engine's features and implementation.
During the day, we'll have highly skilled mentors available to answer questions, help troubleshoot, and advise and inspire you along the way. We'll also provide lunch and dinner, caffeine and soft drinks.
AGENDA:
09:30a – Welcome & Introduction to Elasticsearch
10:00a – Pitch ideas and forming teams
10:15a – Tutorial (optional)
09:30a – Welcome & Introduction to Elasticsearch
10:00a – Pitch ideas and forming teams
10:15a – Tutorial (optional)
10:30a – Coding starts!
12:00p – Lunch
06:00p – Dinner. Coding ends!
06:30p – Team presentations & Voting
Why Elasticsearch?
Elasticsearch is a cloud-based, distributed, RESTful search server based on Apache Lucene.
Advantages of Elasticsearch include:
- Real-time search
- Multi-tenancy
- Supports faceting and percolating
- High availability
- Full text search
If you aren’t familiar or need a refresher, Elasticsearch.org provides a great overview and tips for getting started and additional information is available at https://github.com/elasticsearch/elasticsearch
Why bother?
Because we'll have awesome sponsors providing compute (SoftLayer), mentors (Hopper, Traackr, Elasticsearch) and space (hack/reduce), all to give you a unique occasion to have access to computing power, powerful technologies, fellow hackers and experienced Elasticsearch users all in the same room!
Because we'll have awesome sponsors providing compute (SoftLayer), mentors (Hopper, Traackr, Elasticsearch) and space (hack/reduce), all to give you a unique occasion to have access to computing power, powerful technologies, fellow hackers and experienced Elasticsearch users all in the same room!
Prizes include a 1-year subscription for SoftLayer (a $12,000 value) and a seat in an Elasticsearch training course (a $1,600 value).
Where is it?
hack/reduce, the big data hacker space serving the Greater Boston tech community located at 275 Third Street at the corner of Binney Street in Kendall Square.
What should I bring?
- Your laptop and charger
- A water bottle: hack/reduce is trying to generate as little trash as possible; there will be many places to fill up throughout the day!
- A VGA (preferred) or HDMI adapter - we have these for Mini Display ports (Macs), but if you have an exotic machine, we recommend you come prepared if possible.
- Project ideas:
Everyone is welcome to bring their own project ideas and find team members at the event. And if you don't have a precise project idea, don't worry, you can join a team!
- Data sets:
We'll be preloading some data sets, but if there's something specific you're interested in or you have access to data sets that you think could be of interest to other participants, bring your ideas and we'll help get them indexed and available for everyone on-the-day.
What should I do to prepare?
- Prep your laptop and get familiar with the resources available on the Github repo.
Please note: we are unable to provide support for any type of Windows environment, although such an environment should work.
- Register to vote & present at the end of the day at elastichack.challengepost.com
This is the platform we're using to capture submissions and voting at the end of the day. In order to present and vote, you'll need to be signed-in; save precious hacking time by doing it now!
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