Optimizing MapReduce Jobs

Social Recruiting The Best

Cloudera (my employer) is hiring. And this time they’re using social recruiting to find the best. This job post is using OnGig to find someone. It’s a very interesting approach than the usual CraigsList ad. OnGig doesn’t have the usual ‘stealth...
Mary Alice Berg (1936-2013)

Mary Alice Berg (1936-2013)

Mary Alice Berg was my grandma and she died peacefully on January 7, 2013 at the ripe old age of 76. She had a long bout with renal cancer that spread to other organs. The daughter of an Irish orphan mother and a German immigrant father, she was born, lived and died...

Big Data Congress

I’ll be speaking at the Big Data Congress in St. John, New Brunswick Canada. The session’s theme is the software that powers Big Data. I’ll be telling the Million Monkeys stories and answering questions. See you...