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In this edition of the Roaring News series, we talk about delivering business value and how to build an analytics team. For the Machine learning aficionados, we cover the top ML algorithms and we round off with an article on sizing a Apache Flink cluster, which fits nicely with the previous and next episode!

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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…?

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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”