Mountain View, CA (PRWEB) October 23, 2014
Joining forces with Silicon Valley startup incubator Y Combinator, and its prodigy Product Hunt, Aerospike will sponsor the first Product Hunt Hackathon in Mountain View, Calif. to educate local developers on creating high-performance database applications.
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As a tried-and-true tool for startups looking to scale quickly and reliably, Aerospike’s participation in this event will give developers the opportunity to deploy cutting-edge database technology in their applications. Aerospike Engineer Chris Stivers will lead a one-hour workshop titled, ‘Building High-Performance Database Applications’ to introduce participants to the Aerospike database, and methods for creating Application Program Interfaces (API) using one of the many client languages available.
EVENT DETAILS
Y Combinator will host the 24-hour event onsite at their headquarters at 320 Pioneer Way, Mountain View, CA 94041 Oct. 25-26, 2014. Doors open at 10:30AM, with the official hackathon start at 1PM. The top three winners will have the opportunity to pitch their product ideas at local venture capitalist firms. Developers unable to attend are encouraged to participate remotely.
ABOUT AEROSPIKE
Aerospike is the world’s fastest database. Its open-source, flash-optimized, in-memory NoSQL key-value store operates with unprecedented speed, unlimited scale and unmatched reliability. With Aerospike, developers can rapidly build a new class of Internet-scale, data-driven applications that have the ability to process millions of transactions per second with sub-millisecond response times. Entrepreneurs and enterprises like AppNexus, Chango, eXelate, Inmobi and Kayak rely on Aerospike so they focus on scaling their business, without the complexity of building and maintaining a high velocity database. These disruptive apps run Aerospike in pure RAM or a hybrid RAM/SSD configuration, scaling with the economics of flash. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Aerospike investors include NEA, CNTP and Alsop Louie. Download the open source Aerospike Community Edition at http://www.aerospike.com and follow @aerospikedb.