We’re extremely excited to announce two of the newest additions to our ever growing speaker list for Aloha on Rails. This conference is shaping up to be a true testament of the breadth and aloha of the Rails community.
Yehuda Katz, core committer and spearheading the Merb/Rails merger, will teach us the principles of the Rails 3 API. He will show us how to read and understand the Rails source code so we can customize the framework just the way we want. The public API for Rails 3 is a major development, and will help stabilize the plugin and extension ecosystem.
Alan Gates, architect at Yahoo and lead on the Pig language, will teach us how to think in Map Reduce, how to grok Hadoop, and how to use Pig to quickly and easily write queries to crunch petabytes of data. Deriving value from large data sets has quickly become an important skill and competitive advantage. Systems like Hadoop and Pig level the playing field, allowing anyone to process data just like the big boys.
Attendees at Aloha on Rails will be treated to a variety of important and timely topics, all relevant to Rails and web development. We know a successful Rails system is much more than just controllers and models, and as such we are working hard to build a program that will teach you, excite you, and get you thinking and talking. Register today to secure your seat at this year’s premier destination event for Ruby on Rails!
