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Make Data Work
September 11, 2018: Training & Tutorials
September 12–13, 2018: Keynotes & Sessions
New York, NY
Julien Le Dem

Julien Le Dem
Principal Engineer, WeWork

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Julien Le Dem is a principal engineer at WeWork. He’s also the coauthor of Apache Parquet and the PMC chair of the project, and he’s a committer and PMC member on Apache Pig, Apache Arrow, and a few other projects. Previously, he was an architect at Dremio; tech lead for Twitter’s data processing tools, where he also obtained a two-character Twitter handle (@J_); and a principal engineer and tech lead working on content platforms at Yahoo, where he received his Hadoop initiation. His French accent makes his talks particularly attractive.

Sessions

5:25pm–6:05pm Wednesday, 09/12/2018
From flat files to deconstructed database: The evolution and future of the big data ecosystem
Location: 1A 10 Level: Intermediate
Julien Le Dem (WeWork)
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Big data infrastructure has evolved from flat files in a distributed filesystem to an efficient ecosystem to a fully deconstructed and open source database with reusable components. Julien Le Dem discusses the key open source components of the big data ecosystem and explains how they relate to each other and how they make the ecosystem more of a database and less of a filesystem. Read more.