My 5 minute lightning talk on Cascalog

Cascalog makes it a lot simpler to build distributed strategy backtesters on terabytes of market data, for example. It is a data processing library for building MapReduce jobs. I’ve been spiking out a data processing project with it at work for the past couple of weeks. So I thought I might as well give a lightning talk about it at our monthly developers meetup. Here are my presentation slides introducing Cascalog and outlining its features.

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