Jean-Pierre Koenig, TweetHead of Technology at Sentric

Biography: Jean-Pierre Koenig

Jean-Pierre is Head of Technology at sentric, where he leads development with a highly motivated team. He studied computer science at the University of Applied Sciences in Konstanz and has many years of experience in designing, building and running web applications, recently focusing on processing large data sets using the Hadoop ecosystem. He is a co-founder of the Swiss BigData User Group and regularly speaks and writes about Hadoop and agile related topics.

Twitter: @jpkoenig

Presentation: TweetNear real time processing of social media data with HBase

Time: Thursday 14:30 - 15:00 / Location: Geneva IV

Monitoring social media and news media in general is kind of building a search engine - a specific search engine called news agent. Where classical search engines are about to have all kind of content, newsagent focus on news and social media only. This is where content freshness matters - it has to be near real time.

In order to process several million news with hundreds of Megabytes per day one has to choose a system architecture that is reliable on one hand and massive scalable at the other hand. Those requirements leads to a distributed architecture, a NoSQL approach.

This talk will give you a brief overview about the Media Monitoring use case, the system architecture based on Hadoop and HBase, challenges and lessons learned.