Episode 37 - Big Data Roles: The starter

In this episode, we start a new series on the different roles in Big Data. Purely by coincidence, it turns out that the winner of our raffle started a new job as a Data Engineer at the beginning of this month, so naturally we decided to invite Marcel-Jan on the show to talk about the how and why of his career move.

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00:00 Recent events

Dave
- It’s morphing time: Apache Ranger graduates to a Top Level Project
  - https://hortonworks.com/blog/morphing-time-apache-ranger-graduates-top-level-project-part-1/
  - https://hortonworks.com/blog/morphing-time-apache-ranger-graduates-top-level-project-part-2/
- Data-Driven User Engagement
  - https://www.svds.com/data-driven-user-engagement/
- Driving Product Engagement with User Behaviour Analytics
  - https://www.svds.com/driving-product-engagement-user-behavior-analytics/
Jhon
- Using Apache Spark for large-scale language model training
  - https://code.facebook.com/posts/678403995666478/using-apache-spark-for-large-scale-language-model-training/
- Big data pioneer Cloudera reportedly planning an IPO later this year
  - http://siliconangle.com/blog/2017/02/28/cloudera-reportedly-planning-ipo-later-year/
- Google is acquiring data science community Kaggle
  - https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/07/google-is-acquiring-data-science-community-kaggle/
  - https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/08/google-confirms-its-acquisition-of-data-science-community-kaggle/
- How to use blockchain to build a database solution
  - http://www.zdnet.com/article/blockchains-in-the-database-world-what-for-and-how/

42:00 Big Data Roles: The starter

Interview with Marcel-Jan Krijgsman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwBWlpm3Sx4), winner of our raffle and by pure coincidence starting a dedicated Hadoop role on the first of this month .
- Ratiings for MOOCs
  - https://www.class-central.com
- Hadoop safari : Hunting for vulnerabilities
  - http://archive.hack.lu/2016/Wavestone%20-%20Hack.lu%202016%20-%20Hadoop%20safari%20-%20Hunting%20for%20vulnerabilities%20-%20v1.0.pdf
- Open Circle Solutions
  - http://www.opencirclesolutions.nl/en/

01:22:58 End

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