Monthly Archives: September 2013

Weaponizing Hadoop

Posted on September 17, 2013 by Grease Monkey

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 →

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Hadoop Hindsight #2 Keep it simple: more than likely someone else has encountered your problem.

Posted on September 2, 2013 by Lowes Shopper

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 →

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