Open to all Austin area data geeks. Sorry, no recruiters.

If you love beer, code, and football this is the group for you, but really.... we're more than that. We'll aim to meet at a local watering hole during the week, get to know each other, network, and then make plans for the weekend. The point is to meet other outgoing and socially competent developers to collaborate on projects, take on Austin Nightlife and to stay physically active. (Gym, Paintball, kayaking, Biking, and any other sports). Once we have enough members I'll aim to arrange social mi …

This is an IBM sponsored Big Data meetup group.  Geared towards developers, data scientists and all Big Data enthusiasts, our meetups provide an opportunity to work hands on with the solutions and tools in our Big Data platform. Our Meetups typically include a 45-60 min (max) presentation that serves as an introduction and overview for a specific Big Data technology.  It is followed by ~3 hours to collaborate with fellow developers and apply your Big Data skills.  We provide a cloud environment …

"Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server. Redis is becoming quite popular, and we love it! Let's meet and talk Redis (and other related technologies), have a good time, and grow the Redis community here in Austin."

This is a group for those interested in learning more about MongoDB--the high performance, schema free, document oriented database. We'll be doing a deep dive into MongoDB each month. If you're interested in sharing your experience, or have specific topics you'd like covered, let us know!

Let's get together and share what we know.

Interested in distributed systems? Riak is a bullet-proof key/value data store inspired by Amazon's Dynamo paper. We will look at distributed systems in general and Riak specifically, exploring best-practices, pitfalls, and strategies. Our goal is to bring in speakers from the community as well as from Basho itself, to help share experiences and solutions to help members get the most out of Riak and learn from each others' approaches and mistakes.