Our annual Apache:Big Data and ApacheCon:Core events were held recently at the lovely Corinthia Hotel Budapest, and the content and attendees were amazing. The weather was great too, and sightseeing and shopping in Budapest were lovely. Attendance was still good even in the face of time-competing software conferences and the local refugee crisis happening in the region.
While they were booked as separate events, many people stayed for the whole week. Going forward, we will likely have a single event, but be even clearer with the strength of content in specific track days. The broad array of very deep and well-received technical content in the big data space was truly impressive; Apache has over a dozen big data related projects and probably 20 more incoming Incubator podlings, so we certainly have the space covered!