Dave Russell, Author at Roaring Elephant

Episode 8 – NiFi Deeper Dive

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In this episode we’ll go into more depth on NiFi complete with our second interview with Joe Witt, Senior Director of Engineering at Hortonworks who dives into how NiFi works under the covers and some considerations to think about when using it for real. Continue reading

Episode 7 – An introduction to Data Ingest

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In this episode we’ll cover some of the most common options for ingesting data into Hadoop including technologies like Flume, Sqoop, Kafka, NiFi and more. Continue reading “Episode 7 – An introduction to Data Ingest”

Roaring Elephant now live on iTunes!

We have officially arrived!

With a backlog of a few episodes behind us it seemed like the right time to apply to be reachable via iTunes. We’re delighted to say this process completed earlier today. Continue reading “Roaring Elephant now live on iTunes!”

Episode 6 – An introduction to NiFi

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In this episode we’ll cover some an introduction to NiFi complete with an interview with Joe Witt, Senior Director of Engineering at Hortonworks who explains exactly where NiFi came from and how it fits into your Big Data plans. Continue reading “Episode 6 – An introduction to NiFi”