Learn about important new technologies in the Java ecosystem: Java, Scala, Groovy, frameworks, tools, etc. We meet on the third wednesday of the month in downtown Oakland. The agenda is typically:  6.30pm-7pm - networking and pizza 7pm-9pm - presentation and Q&A Its a great opportunity to  learn new technologies; network with other developers; and discover job opportunities.  

… We're big fans of: Lightning talks Skills workshops Happy Hours Great design User-centric development Some of our Meetups will focus on: Ruby, Rails 3, Backbone, Heroku, PostgreSQL, RSpec Bash, Ruby 1.9, Goliath, Grape, AWS, Jenkins, MongoDB, Hadoop SQL and NoSQL practices like TDD and pair programming

A monthly meetup for those in the Bay Area to talk Riak, distributed systems, and app. development.

Come visit us at our downtown office and check out what's in alpha, beta, and let us help you with building your apps.

Today is the age of Scalable Systems and Big Data. Providing a meetup where we can discuss innovation, solutions and have pub nights for drinking and socializing.

We are a group focused on developers who use IaaS to develop and deploy web-based applications.

This is where Splunk users and fans can organize user group meetups in their location. Thus far, we have user group meetups in Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Columbus, OH, St. Louis, and soon in San Diego. Add yours to the list. To learn more, go to Splunk.com and download the free version.

… This is going to be THE group to join for information on application development, software engineering, OO, cloud, mobile, enterprise, business intelligence, HTML5, Hadoop, Python, Eclipse, JavaScript, JAVA, Machine Learning, HBASE, Mapreduce, Robotics, Erlang, jQuery, MongoDB, NoSQL, PHP, Agile, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Frameworks, IDEs, animation, design, node.js, twisted, Android, iPhone, iOS, UI/UX, social media, SEO/SEM/PPC, and how to turn applications and ideas into real business solutions an …

Parse (http://www.parse.com) is hosted solution and framework which allows mobile developers to instantiate a server stack, database schema, and query APIs automagically. Yes, automagically, as in not having to know how to shh into a remote server for sys admin stuff; no Ruby/PHP/Python/Java/Scala etc or their associated frameworks; no db such as mysql, nosql, or anysql.  On the client side you also don't have to worry about server comm or caching into a local db such as Core Data or sqlite. If …

Redis is a powerful and fast key-value store and server. We think it's awesome. There's a growing number of Redis aficionados in the Bay Area. Let's meet up, talk about Redis (and maybe a bit about database stuff in general), have fun, and help grow the Redis community!

BashoChats is a monthly, intimate gathering at BashoWest to discuss issues, trends, and ideas in and around the areas of distributed systems and large-scale computing. The goal is to meet once a month at 929 Market St in SOMA. Basho will provide the pizza, beer, and projector. You bring the hard questions.     

For SFBay area developers interested in distributed discussing CouchDB, Membase, and Memcached

Developers interested in learning about and working with graph databases for social, spatial, hierarchical or other highly connected data sets. We host hands-on lab sessions, technology reviews, topical lectures, and plenty of social beer nights. Curious about graphs, want to pimp your non-RDBMS skills? Join us!

Hypertable is an open source project based on published best practices and our own experience in solving large-scale data-intensive tasks. Our goal is to bring the benefits of new levels of both performance and scale to many data-driven businesses who are currently limited by previous-generation platforms. Modeled after Google's well known Bigtable project, Hypertable is designed to manage the storage and processing of information on a large cluster of commodity servers, providing resilience …

A Bay Area based Hadoop user group focused on helping Hadoop users share experiences, problems and solutions, as well as learn new skills for building large-scale Hadoop-based systems.