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Tech Talk videos online

Posted by Bill Boebel, CTO, Mailtrust

In February and March we hosted our first two Tech Talks at our Mailtrust office in Blacksburg. We opened it up to our employees, local developers at other companies, as well as students from Virginia Tech, with a goal of bringing people together to share information about interesting technologies. The turn out was awesome and people asked great questions.

We recorded the events in case you couldn’t attend…

Tech Talk 1: MapReduce vs MySQL (speaker Stu Hood)
video on Y!DN

Tech Talk 2: Next Generation Data Storage with CouchDB (speaker: Jan Lehnardt)
video part 1
video part 2

Thanks Stu and Jan for the great presentations! Jan will be giving his CouchDB presentation again tomorrow at RubyConf in Salt Lake City, and Stu will be giving his MapReduce presentation again Tuesday at Java SIG in Palo Alto. If you’re in the area, I highly recommend hitting these talks.

And for those in the Blacksburg VA area, Manu Sporny from Digital Bazaar will be at our office on April 28th at 6pm for Tech Talk 3. He will be giving an introduction to the Semantic Web and talking about his work with the W3C and RDFa Task Force.