Monthly Archives: September 2013
Weaponizing Hadoop
We are usually left to bash for scripting Hadoop functions. It’s the default in Linux and it’s usually good enough. There are enough “bash-isms” that will cause your Java/pig/database people serious heart ache. If you’re new to Hadoop, go ahead … Continue reading
Hadoop Hindsight #2 Keep it simple: more than likely someone else has encountered your problem.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered. -G.K. Chesterton Sometimes our ego gets the best of us. This seems to occur more often in Hadoop than anywhere else I’ve worked. I’m not … Continue reading