Author: Jhon Masschelein

In this episode we discuss the maturity of the Hadoop ecosystem and how hard it currently still is to get the value out of data. In the main section, we will have the second part of the interview with Alan Gates, this time talking about the place Hive has in the ecosystem.

We still have more from Alan so stay tuned for more Hive goodness in future episodes! Continue reading “Episode 43 – Alan Gates talks Hive (Part 2)”

In this episode of the Roaring Elephant podcast, Dave and I continue to share our Dataworks summit experience, meet yet more listeners, sit in on a few more sessions and give our overall view of the day and the summit as a whole! It will make you wish you were here.
Continue reading “Episode 40 – Dataworks Summit Europe – Day 2”

In this episode of the Roaring Elephant podcast, Dave and I attend the Dataworks summit, meet listeners, sit in on sessions and give our overall view of the day! It’s the next best thing to being here.

 

If you ARE here, then look out for us, we’ll exchange limited edition Roaring Elephant stickers for audio clips.
Continue reading “Episode 39 – Dataworks Summit Europe – Day 1”

This week, your hosts go over what we consider to be our pick of the sessions that will be presented during the Hadoop Summit Dataworks Summit in Munich next week.

 

The Roaring Elephant will be in attendance, look out for the two guys in distinctive yellow fleeces with the Roaring Elephant logo on the back, we hope to see you there!

Continue reading “Episode 38 – Dataworks Summit 2017 – Preview”

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.
Continue reading “Episode 37 – Big Data Roles: The starter”