Amazon has a saying “Work Hard.  Have Fun.  Make History.”  Hackathons encapsulate this ethos; a 24 hour opportunity to get together with other hackers and see how much you can really achieve when you push it to the max. A collective of hackers riding the edge of sleep deprivation and a whole lot of caffeine can create some truly spectacular results. Ever been tempted to see what you can achieve if you push the envelope? Please note, membership is currently limited to students from the Univers …

Welcome to Big Data Scotland! Big Data Scotland brings together people working on Big Data projects. If you're using Hadoop, EC2, Apache Cassandra or any other NoSQL related technology, if you're involved with web apps, enterprise apps, data analytics, financial apps or storage at massive scale, or simply want to learn more about the space, then you'll find something interesting here. So come and join us.

The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model. The Glasgow Apache Cassandra User Group is a highly awesome meetup group, bringing together cool people distributed across Glasgow to talk about our favorite NoSQL implementation, Apache Cassandra.