My original review of Hadoop The Definitive Guide (TDG) was for the 2nd edition. Recently, the 3rd edition was released. I reread the book in its entirety. The new edition covers the latest changes to the 1.x (0.20) and the 2.x (0.23). The book’s examples now...
Things have been pretty quiet around here. A little too quiet. Like all things in life, I got really busy. I changed jobs and I’m a Curriculum Developer and Instructor at Cloudera. I will be teaching people more about Hadoop and its ecosystem. Look for more...
Update: Be sure to check out my screencast covering this project. Note: This is a very long, technical and detailed discussion of Amazon Web Services. You can watch the YouTube video below for a less technical explanation or skip to the conclusion to get the results....
At last weekend’s Hack4Reno, I created a new visualization of the Million Monkeys’ data. It allows you to choose your favorite work of Shakespeare and find out how a particular character was found. You simply place or hover the mouse over a character and...
All the world’s a stage,And all the monkeys merely players;They have their typos and their hits,And one monkey in his time plays many parts,His acts being 38 works of Shakespeare.- Monkey As You Like It Update: I created a new visualization of the monkeys’...
