One of my favorite things about working in the AMPLAb is our focus on extending impact beyond the academic community and into the “real world”. This coming week, we will host the first UC Berkeley AMP Camp, a practitioner’s guide to cutting-edge large scale data management. The AMP Camp will feature hands-on tutorials on big data analysis using the AMPLab software stack, including Spark, Shark, and Mesos. These tools work hand-in-hand with technologies like Hadoop to provide high performance, low latency data analysis. AMP Camp will also include high level overviews of warehouse scale computing, presentations on several big data use-cases, and talks on related projects in the lab (see the full agenda).

AMP Camp will be live streamed directly from the U.C. Berkeley campus on Tuesday August 21 and Wednesday August 22nd. Participants will be able to engage in real time tutorials and interact with instructors directly through Piazza. Attending the live-streamed AMPCamp is completely free and requires only a brief registration. Around 200 attendees will also participate on-site (unfortunately on-site registration has sold out!).

Modern “big data” infrastructure increasingly consists of open-source projects with steep learning curves. Hands-on instruction is a critical prerequisite for understanding how to use these technologies and tie them together to extract value from massive data sets. Through AMP Camp and our broader community development initiatives, the AMPLab hopes to accelerate adoption of our Berkeley Data Analytics Stack (BDAS) and educate the community at large about data management.

We hope you all register for AMPCamp live stream – see you on the 21st!