Author: Jhon Masschelein

In this continuation of our Hadoop Sizing series we started last September, we move on from sizing your cluster to sizing the individual server chassis or virtual machines in your cluster. We did not finish the entire story just yet, concentrating mainly on the storage component.  The final part 3 where we round off the subject with sizing your compute and network resources is planned to be published in the next topic episode. Continue reading “Episode 72 – Hadoop sizing part 2: Storage sizing”

This time Dave has prepared some articles for us to discuss. First we talk about something new on our radar: Apache Trafodion which is a transactional SQL on Hadoop. Next we spend some time on Artificial ignorance and we round off with some IoT predictions by IBM Continue reading “Episode 71 – Roaring News”

In this trip down memory lane, we go over an article from five years ago and discuss how Hadoop and Big Data have changed since then, or has it…?

Continue reading “Episode 70 – 10 Facts about Hadoop, five years later”

The first news episode of 2018 has landed. We discuss the new Big Data architecture at CERN, a curious case of a broken benchmark and the future plans of the Apache Hadoop project. Continue reading “Episode 69 – Roaring News”